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Philippine Personalist Blocs
Marcos / Duterte · 2016– · Philippines · Personalist Populist · Held state power · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Strongman law-and-order politics organised around family names rather than programmes, with shifting alliances between them.
Economic model
Infrastructure programmes, foreign investment liberalisation, cash transfers, remittance dependence.
Organisation of powers
Competitive elections alongside an anti-drug campaign with thousands of extrajudicial killings, now before the International Criminal Court.
Reading note
High scores on authority and method inside a system with genuine electoral turnover — a combination the standard democracy/autocracy binary handles poorly.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04
Coded +4: infrastructure programmes and liberalised foreign investment.
- Documented act or statuteThe Build Build Build programme and the 2022 amendments opening sectors to foreign ownership.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +07
Coded +7: law-and-order traditionalism with strong Catholic influence on family law.
- Documented act or statuteThe Philippines remains one of two states without legal divorce; a divorce bill passed the lower house in 2024.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +06
Coded +6: competitive elections alongside extrajudicial killing and prosecution of critics.
- Documented act or statuteEstimates of drug-war deaths range from 6,000 official to over 27,000; a senator critical of the campaign was imprisoned for six years.
- Documented act or statuteA former president was arrested on an ICC warrant in 2025.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +04
Coded +4: a unitary state with the Bangsamoro autonomous region.
- Documented act or statuteThe Bangsamoro Organic Law created an autonomous region in 2019 after decades of conflict.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +04
Coded +4: civic citizenship with a strong dynastic concentration of office.
- ScholarshipA large majority of national and local offices are held by members of political families.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +03
Coded +3: elected, with state violence as declared policy.
- Documented act or statuteThe campaign was announced as policy before election and defended publicly in office.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- Congolese Post-War Politics3.0
- Fijian Post-Coup Politics3.2
- Ivorian Politics3.3
- Bukelismo3.5
- Bolsonarismo3.6
- National Resistance Movement3.6
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