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2011 Philippine Political Science Association Annual Conference

29-30 April 2011, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City

DAY ONE, 29 APRIL 2011

Time Activity Venue
0800-0900 REGISTRATION Registration Desk
0900-1030 OPENING SESSION (Chair: Julio Teehankee, De La Salle Sanctuario De La Salle
University-Manila)

Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Keynote

Speaker
Ronald D. Holmes (De La Salle University-Manila; President,
PPSA)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Paul D. Hutchcroft (Australian National University)

Open Forum
1030-1045 COFFEE BREAK
1045-1215 CONCURRENT SESSION ONE Hall 1, 2,3
Panel 1A: Democracy, Conflict, and Human Security:
Case Studies from the Asian Region
Chair: Julio Teehankee
Presenters:
1. Renato De Castro, 21st Century Philippine Civil-Military
Relations: Why Partnership Instead of Subordination?
2. Dennis Trinidad, From Technical Effectiveness to
Democratic Responsiveness: Administrative Reforms
and the Developmental State of Japan
3. Kevin Punzalan, Civil Society Organizations and the
Nuclear Energy Debate in the Philippines
4. Francis Rico Domingo, Understanding the
Sustainability of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Panel 1B: Democracy, Violence and Memory: Narrating

Lives Lost in Mendiola
Chair: Maria Ela Atienza
Presenters:
1. Joel F. Ariate, Jr., Mendiola and the First Quarter Storm:
Valorized Narratives, Favored Histories
2. Rowell G. Casaclang , The 1983 National Day of
Sorrow: Unremembered and Unmourned
3. Miguel Paolo Reyes, Memories of Mendiola Massacre:
The Vitality of Violence for Democracy
4. Elinor May Cruz, Requiem for the Masses: Edsa 3 in
Mendiola

Panel 1C: Democracy, Migration, and Multiculturalism:

The Philippines and South Korea
Chair: Ronald Holmes
Presenters:
1. Francisco Magno, Governing Overseas Migration:
Policy Issues in the Philippines and South Korea
2. Junmo Kim and Yongmo Lee, Two Options for the
Future: Multi-Cultural Society and Riding the Digital
Waves with Implications for the Philippines
3. YoungBum Lee, The Economic Effects of Immigration
4. Seung-Bum Yang and Yong Soo Kwon, Political
Consciousness of Filipino Marriage Migrant Women in
South Korea

Panel 1D: Theory and practice of Democratic

Decentralization: A comparative study of bureaucratic
and local government democratic practice in the
Philippines and South East Asia
Chair: Jorge Tigno
Presenters:
1. Eric Daniel De Torres, From Presidential to
Parliamentary System: An Institutional Approach in
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Developing Philippine Bureaucracy

2. Marion Valencia, Culture of Voting for the Mayoral Post
in the Municipality of Tiaong, Quezon in the 2010
Elections
3. Alfredo S. Sureta Jr., From Formal Democracy to
Substantial Democracy: A comparative study of
democratic decentralization cases from Five Southeast
Asian countries
1215-1315 LUNCH
1315-1445 CONCURRENT SESSION TWO Hall 1,2,3
Panel 2A: Decentralization: Next Generation Issues (1)
Chair: Francisco Magno
Presenters:
1. Francisco Magno and Ian Jason Hecita, Inter-LGU
Collaboration
2. Anne Lan Candelaria and Carmel Abao, The Impact of
the 2008 Global Recession on LGUs: The Case of
Paete, Laguna
3. Jean Paul Zialcita, The Impact of International Labor
Migration on Local Politics

Panel 2B: Underperforming, Unstable, Unenforced:

Institutions in Recent Philippine Elections
Chair: Olivia C. Caoili
Presenters:
1. Cleo Calimbahin, Exceeding (Low) Expectations:
Commission on Elections
2. Antonio Pedro, Jr., Presidents and their Bandwagons,
Legislators and their Parties: Party-Switching During
the 2010 Elections
3. Gladstone A. Cuarteros, Campaign Finance and the
Left Party-list

Panel 2C: Images, ideals and abstractions of

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demos/democracy
Chair: Alma Ocampo-Salvador
Presenters:
1. Antonio Contreras, Ang Konsepto ng Pagsasaayos
Bilang Panimulang Post-Kolonyal na Pagdalumat
Pulitikal sa Panahong Post-Moderno
2. Lourdes Veneracion Rallonza, Body Politic, Symbolic
Politics, and Women’s Bodies: Exploring Alternative
Democratic Spaces and Naked Protests Through the
Spectacle of Femen
3. Ladylyn Lim Mangada, Implementing the Anti-
Trafficking in Persons Act in the Samar Island
1445-1500 COFFEE BREAK
1500-1630 CONCURRENT SESSION THREE Hall 1,2,3
Panel 3A: Decentralization: Next Generation Issues (2)
Chair: Jean Paul Zialcita
Presenters:
1. Jet Olfato and Louie Montemar, E-government in Metro
Manila
2. Rosa Babel Calilung-Teehankee, Mainstreaming
Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Governance: Metro
Manila after Typhoon Ketsana
3. Francisco Magno and Alma Ocampo-Salvador, Coastal
Resource Management: Civil Society and
Environmental Governance
4. Ruth Lusterio-Rico, National Government-LGU
Relations: Implementing the Mining Act

Panel 3B: Democratization, religion and rule of law

Chair: Herman Kraft
Presenters:
1. Lydia Yu-Jose, The Catholic Church: Active Player in
Philippine Politics Then and Now
2. Rene Raymond Raneses, Jr., The Politics of Charity:
Filipino Catholic Social Action Workers, Neoliberal
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Democracy and Religious Subjectivity

3. Edna Co, Discoursing rule of law as democracy,
democracy in rule of law

Panel 3C: Power Shifts and Power Diffusion:

Democratization in World Politics
Chair: Malaya Ronas
Presenters:
1. Francisco Nemenzo, EDSA and Tahrir Square: People
Power in the Philippines and Egypt
2. Ali Sani, The Relevance of Civic (Citizenship) Education
for Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria
1630-1800 CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR Hall 1,2,3
Panel 4A: Decentralization: Next Generation Issues (3)
Chair: Rosa Babel Calilung Teehankee
Presenters:
1. Maria Ela L. Atienza, Achieving the Millenium
Development Goals (MDGs) in the Philippines Using
the Human Security Approach and Localization of the
MDGs
2. Mary Jocelyn R. Dela Cruz, Decentralizing Basic
Education: How Empowering is School Empowerment?
3. Antonio Pedro, Jr., How Much Do We Really Know
About Decentralization? Theory and Methods in the
Assessment of Philippine Devolution Since 1991

Panel 4B: Democratization in different parts of the

world
Chair: Carmencita Aguilar
Presenters:
1. Dominique Caouette, Ripe for a New Asian
Multilateralism? ASEAN and Contemporary Regional
Dynamics
2. Samuel C.Y. Ku, Political Democratization in Taiwan
and the Philippines: An Institutional Perspective
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3. Matthias Maass, What is happening with the “City

Upon a Hill”? The American Dream and the US
Presidential Elections as Global Events

Panel 4C: Political attitudes, values, identity, and

politics (Student Panel)
Chair: Maria Elissa Lao
Presenters:
1. Karen Mae Cruz, Of Subtle Influences and Political
Choices: A Study on the Correlation of Institutionalized
University Values and Political Preferences
2. Hansley A. Juliano, Compadrazco and the “Familial”
Legitimization of Patronage Politics in Local and
National Engagements
3. Hilarion C. Matavia Jr., Pedagogy and Identity: Public
School and DepEd-accredited Madaris teachers’ role in
Muslim-identity building
4. Ruby Roselle Tugade, EDSA and the concept of
political space
1800-1930 Roundtable Discussion: State and Prospects of Critical
Theorizing in Philippine Political Science
Speakers:
1. Antonio Contreras
2. Amado Mendoza, Jr.
3. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza
4. Rene Raymond Raneses
5. Rizalino Malabed, Jr.
6. Carmina Untalan
1930-2100 DINNER
(Distribution of Ballots for Election of 2011-2012 PPSA Board
Members)
DAY TWO, 30 APRIL 2011
0900-1030 PLENARY SESSION Sanctuario De La Salle
Democracy After 1986
Chair: Grace Gorospe-Jamon
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Presenters:
1. Felipe Miranda
2. Temario Rivera
3. Malaya Ronas
4. Ronald Holmes
1030-1045 COFFEE BREAK
1045-1215 CONCURRENT SESSION FIVE Hall 1,2,3
Panel 5A: Institutions, resource and redistribution
Chair: Lourdes Veneracion Rallonza
Presenters:
1. M. Stevenson Curry, The implications for civil society
and Philippine democracy of large scale land deals
2. Rene Raymond Raneses, Contested Secularism and
the Persistence of the Politico-Theological in the
Philippine Democratization Discourse: Catholic
Bishops, the Reproductive Health Bill, and Agonistic
Democracy
3. Maria Elissa J. Lao, A Formative Evaluation of AtN
Service Delivery : Optimizing Key Factors and
Increasing Synergy at Post

Panel 5B: New Media and Democracy

Chair: Antonio Pedro Jr.
Panel:
1. Jalton Taguibao, Images of “Democracy” in Internet
Search Engines:
Exploring the visual rhetoric in democratic discourse
2. Ronald Molmisa, Philippine Cyberactivism: Challenges
and Prospects
3. Ma. Divina Gracia Z. Roldan, From Facebook to Tweet:
Locating Social Media in the 2010 National Elections

Panel 5C: Values and deficits

Chair: Edna Co
Presenters:
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1. Maria Ela L. Atienza and Clarinda Lusterio-Berja, A Pilot

Study of the Human Security Index in Five
Municipalities in the Philippines: A Preliminary Analysis
of People’s Views of Security
2. Amado Mendoza, Jr., Do Filipinos Share the Same
Political Values?: A Study of the World Values Survey
Data
3. Teresa Encarnacion Tadem, “Good Governance” and
the “Technocratic Revolution”: During the Martial Law
Period
4. Eric Batalla, Revisiting the 1983 BOP Crisis
1215-1400 LUNCH
Business Meeting and Election of PPSA Board Members
1400-1530 CONCURRENT SESSION SIX Hall 1,2,3
Panel 6A: Politics from Below/Margins
Chair: Rizalino Malabed
Presenters:
1. Nikki Carsi-Cruz , Global Islamic Resurgence and the
Prospects of Islam and Democracy
2. Jose Ma. Arcadio Malbarosa , Social Covenant as the
Promise of the Same
3. Carmina Y. Untalan, Seeing through the yellow veil:
Imagery in consumption and the revival of democratic
ideology in the Philippines

Panel 6B: Local politics, policy and democratization

Chair: Ian Jason Hecita
Presenters:
1. Bryan Joseph Ortiz, An Assessment of Public
Investment Policies in Marikina in the Post-EDSA
Revolution
2. Mark Anthony Velasco, Unlocking the Mystery of
Capital through Property Rights: A Case Study on the
Effects of Giving Land Titles to the Poor
3. Raymund John Rosuelo, Institutions and democracy at
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the local level

Panel 6C: Force within and beyond: The military, security

and foreign policy in a democratizing polity
Chair: Renato de Castro
Presenters:
1. Rosalie Arcala Hall, Camouflage and Tanaong:
Womanhood and Ethnicity in the Philippine Army and
Police
2. Brian Ventura, Weak state and foreign policy decision-
making: The case of the Ramos administration
3. Arjan Aguirre, Ideational Impasse of CARHRIHL

1530-1545 COFFEE BREAK

1545-1715 CONCURRENT SESSION SEVEN Hall 1,2,3
Panel 7A: Media, environment and politics
Chair: Nikki Briones Carsi-Cruz
Presenters:
1. Ven Paolo Valenzuela and Daryl Santos,
Environmentalism and the Internet
2. Jalton Taguibao and Maria Kristina Gallego, Politics of
Content and Contested Space in Philippine FM Radio
3. Ebinezer Florano, Green Vote in Philippine Politics: The
May 2010 Elections

Panel 7B: The Continuing Challenges to Democratic

Consolidation in Asia
Chair: Julio Teehankee
Presenters:
1. Brendan Howe, Pressures for Democratic Transition
and Consolidation in East Asia
2. Mark Thompson, New (and Improved) Developing
Country Democracies: Can the Philippines Rebrand?
3. Masataka Kimura, A Post-election Assessment of the
Nation-wide Automation of the 2010 Synchronized
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Elections in the Philippines

Panel 7C: Situating Democracy in the Middle East and

North African (MENA) Region: Social Movements,
Political Contestation, and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Chair: Henelito A. Sevilla Jr.
Presenters:
1. Frances De La Cruz, Virtual Gender Identities: Hidden
Communities of the (Persian) Gulf
2. Zyza Nadine Suzara, The Politics of Protest and
Resistance: Women Social Movement in Iran
3. Javad Heydarian, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: The
Evolution of Islamist Social Movements into Pivotal
Electoral Players
4. Henelito A. Sevilla, Jr. The ‘Tortuous Road’ to
Democratization in MENA Region: A Comparative
Study of the Political Reforms in Iran, Tunisia, and
Egypt
1715-1730 Break
1730-1900 Book Launch of Global Civil Social Movements in the Sanctuario De La Salle
Philippines
Third World Studies Center (TWSC), University of the
Philippines, Anvil Publishing Inc. and Philippine Political
Science Association

Welcome Remarks: Maria Ela L. Atienza, Director, Third World

Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy,
University of the Philippines-Diliman

Message: Karina Bolasco, Publishing Manager, Anvil

Publishing, Inc.

Reviews:
1. Paul Hutchcroft, Director, School of International,
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Political & Strategic Studies, Australian National

University
2. Amado Mendoza, Jr., Professor, Department of Political
Science,University of the Philippines-Diliman
3. Antonio C. Pedro, Jr., Director, La Salle Institute of
Governance, De La Salle University-Manila

Awarding of Books to Contributors: Maria Ela L. Atienza and

Karina Bolasco

Authors:
1. Joel F. Ariate, Jr.
2. Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem
3. Ma. Glenda S. Lopez Wui
4. Ronald C. Molmisa
5. Sharon M. Quinsaat
6. Zuraida Mae C. Villanueva

Cover Designer:
Barbie Rosales

Closing Remarks
Cocktails