The Philippines’ democracy turned 34 last week. Will it continue to flirt with authoritarian fantasies?
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Nicole Curato is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the author of Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (2019, Oxford University Press) and editor of Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte’s Early Presidency (2017, Ateneo/Cornell University Press).