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Podcast: Ask Theory
Episode: 127: [Political Science] Science Ba Talaga Ang Political Science? (with Dr. Aries Arugay)
Description: Dr. Aries Arugay is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science of the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Politics & Policy, an international Scopus-indexed journal on regional affairs. In 2020, he was the sole social scientist to receive the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Academy of Science & Technology, for his contributions to the “study of democratization processes and consolidation, security sector reform, and strategic studies in the Philippines and Asia.”
We talked about the current state of Philippine democracy, why disinformation spreads so easily and can be so c...