Author: Björn Dressel | Journal of Democracy

Björn Dressel is associate professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

October 2019, Volume 30, Issue 4

Southeast Asia’s Troubling Elections: Duterte versus the Rule of Law

Björn Dressel
Cristina Regina Bonoan

The first half of President Rodrigo Duterte’s single six-year term saw steady erosion of legal barriers against abuses of power, typified by a bloody and extralegal “drug war.” Yet in midterm Senate elections, Filipino voters gave him a decisive victory.

April 2005, Volume 16, Issue 2

Challenge and Change in East Asia: Facing the Perils of Presidentialism

Francis Fukuyama
Björn Dressel
Boo-Seung Chang

Juan Linz’s 1990 critique of presidentialism in these pages was based largely on the Latin American experience. In the last few years, however, four new Asian democracies have encountered presidential crises. Does Linz’s work hold the secret to what has been ailing these regimes?