A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency

This book offers timely incisive and well-grounded analyses of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte from child of a crisis-prone postcolony wracked by intense intra-elite electoral competition revolutionary challenges from various sectors of society and authoritarian rule and top-down developmentalism to long-time mayor of Davao and first Mindanaoan president of the Philippines.