Dr. Anthony Lawrence Borja completed his PhD in Public Administration at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Development Studies of De La Salle University. His publications and current research projects are on political theory and philosophy, democratic theory, political participation, citizenship, illiberalism, and the question of popular sovereignty. Standing between political science, philosophy, and psychology, his academic training and multi-disciplinary orientation have provided him with the necessary skills to analyze the psycho-political pulse of the Filipino public. As a political scientist, he is trained in comparative politics and quantitative analysis. In the field of political philosophy, his works on comparative political philosophy are manifestations of his capacity for abstraction and critical thought. His most recent publication on the issue of popular sovereignty, and his earlier works on citizenship, civic-political education, and political participation – parts of a much larger project on the essence of democracy itself – tie his scholarship to the literature on democratic values, and to the old question of how democracy can be realized as a system, a process, and a way of life.
PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
(2023) Political Illiberalism in the Philippines: Analyzing Illiberal Political Values. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 23(1).
(2023). We, The People, Silent and Powerless: A Critique of Recent Pluralist Conceptualizations of the People. Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy, 24(1).
Borja, Anthony Lawrence A. “‘Tis but a Habit in an Unconsolidated Democracy: Habitual Voting, Political Alienation and Spectatorship.” Theoria 64, no. 150 (2017): 19-40.
Borja, Anthony Lawrence. “Neither Shadow nor Spectre: Populism as the Ideological Embodiment of the Democratic Paradox.” Theoria 67, no. 162 (2020): 45-70.
PROJECTS
1.Challenges to Political Participation in the Philippines (Working Paper)
2. Re-conceptualizing the People and Popular Sovereignty
3. Economic Democracy and the Citizen-Worker