Constitutional debates in the Philippines: From presidentialism to parliamentarianism?

Asian Survey

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 461-484

  Rüland, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0042532107     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2003.43.3.461     Document Type: Article

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