Editors: Dr. Nicole Curato

Editorial Introduction

Articles

• The Spider Spins His Web: Rodrigo Duterte’s Ascent to Power, Walden Bello
• Bandit Grabbed the State: Duterte’s Moral Politics, Wataru Kusaka
• Why are the Middle Class Misbehaving?: Exploring Democratic Ambivalence and Authoritarian Nostalgia, Adele Webb
• When Exclusion Includes: Democratic and Cosmopolitan Engagements in Contending Self-determination Struggles, Jose Jowel Canuday
• Ethnocentrism: Lessons from Richard Rorty to Randy David, Tracy Llanera
• Philippine Problems are Problems of Modernity, Not of Transition: A Luhmannian Critique of Randolf S. David’s Theory of Modernity, Erwin F. Rafael

Book Review 

• Politics in Jeopardy is Just One Moment of Politics (Review of Understanding Philippine Society, Culture, and Politics by Randolf S. David, edited by Laura L. Samson, Mandaluyong City: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2017), Cynthia B. Bautista

Interview 

• Truth Can be Subversive: An Interview with Randolf S. David, Nicole Curato

Commentary

• Can We Achieve Democracy by Shunning “Moral Politics?”, Herbert Docena