INSIGHTS

This case study examines the intersection of electoral technology and democratic trust during the 2022 Philippine national elections....

Download Part One of our Insights Series on the 2022 Party-List Elections in the Philippines.

Download Part Two of our Insights Series on the 2022 Party-List Elections in the Philippines.

Download Part Three of our Insights Series on the 2022 Party-List Elections in the Philippines.

Republic Act 11054 (2018), the Bangsamoro Organic Law, envisions a multi-party system as a means to empower citizens and ensure that...

Females comprised 43 percent of the candidates in the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK or village youth council) elections last month.  This was...

DIG's Telibert Laoc and Luie Guia discuss the interrelated conditions that affect democratic representation in the Philippines during a...

Philippine politics has come up short. It has not provided true democratic representation in society. The World Economic Forum refers to...

There were no candidates in over 11,000 of the 360,000 (3 percent) elective positions in the Sangguniang Kabataan elections in 2018. ...

The Democratic Insights Group thanks Project PARTICIPATE for its invitation on November 7 to “review and recommend areas for amendments...

The Democratic Insights Group, a non-profit organization under Philippine laws, respectfully offers its comments on Bill No. 29. These...

The Philippine Commission on Elections reported that in the 2019 elections Maguindanao province had the most number of unopposed...

What could be done to address the issue of unopposed candidacies? What interventions could eliminate any situation where voters would...

Why could 15 percent or 36 out of 243 contests for district representative to Congress in the 2019 election be unopposed? To better...

The elections on May 13, 2019 in the Philippines saw a number of candidates who ran without opponents. Data from the Commission on...