Julio C. Teehankee

Julio C. Teehankee

Julio Cabral Teehankee
Dean College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, Manila
Affiliations Executive Secretary, Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA);Regional Manager, for Northeast and Southeast Asia, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem); Associate Editor, Philippine Political Science Journal (PPSJ)

Julio Cabral Teehankee is a Filipino political scientist. He is a Full Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University (DLSU). In 2013, he was appointed Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at DLSU. He previously served as Chair of the International Studies Department (2008-2013); and, Chair of the Political Science Department (1994-1997; 2001-2007).[1]

He continuously aims to bridge theory and practice in academic and other professional endeavors. Aside from teaching and research, he has served as political and policy consultant to government officials, electoral candidates, political parties, national and international organizations.

Teehankee specializes in the comparative analysis of institutional politics and development in East and Southeast Asia, with particular focus on elections, party politics, democratization and governance. He has written and published papers on elections, party politics, and political dynasties in the Philippines and Japan.

His current research include presidentialism in Asia; comparative constitutional dynamics in East and Southeast Asia; and the post-crisis development architecture.[2] He has appeared regularly on media as a political analyst.

He has been cited as one of only four political scientists in the 2015 Webometrics' List of 150 Top Scientists in the Philippines based on Google Scholar Citations.

Education

Julio Teehankee finished his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University from 1972 to 1980. He attended high school at La Salle Greenhills from 1980 to 1984.

He obtained both his doctorate degree in Development Studies (with distinction in 2001) and his bachelor's degree major in Political Science (1988) from De La Salle University. He earned his master's degree in Political Science (1994) from the University of the Philippines.

From 2007 to 2008, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo under a Japan Foundation fellowship.

Personal Background

His paternal grandfather Dr. Jose Tee Han Kee, immigrated to the Philippines in 1901 from Amoy (now Xiamen), China. He was a close associate and friend of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, and was active in the struggle to liberate China from the Qing (Manchu) dynasty.[3] He was the first medical director of the Chinese General Hospital in Manila. Dr. Tee Han Kee established the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing in 1921 and the Filipino-Chinese Medical Society in 1933. He also founded Farmacia Central - the largest prewar drugstore in Manila and precursor of Mercury Drugstore.[4]

Julio’s uncle, Claudio O. Teehankee, was the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Julio’s maternal grandfather, Don Pedro G. Cabral founded the Laboratorio de P. Cabral in 1923. His aunt Myrna O. Cabral, would later become the Mother Superior of the Holy Spirit Adoration Order (also known as the Pink Sisters) in the Philippines. Myrna would take the name Sister Mary Hermenegildes and would later become the order's Mother Prioress and serve as spiritual adviser to former president Corazon C. Aquino and St. Pope John Paul II.[5]

Research and Academic Affiliations

Julio Teehankee was a visiting professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy in 2015. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs in 2002; a Sumitomo Foundation research grantee at the Waseda Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University in 2000; a Fulbright American Studies fellow at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2000; and, a Japan Foundation faculty development grantee at Ibaraki University, Japan from July 1995 to July 1996.

Since 2002, he has been a board member of the National Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS). He served as NIPS vice president and managing trustee from 2002-2006 and 2009.

He is a senior fellow of the Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (formerly the La Salle Institute of Governance) since 2001. He served as the Institute’s executive director from 2006 to 2007. He is also a senior fellow of the Yuchengco Center (formerly the Yuchengco Center for East Asia) since 1996 and the Institute of Popular Democracy (IPD) since 1999.

He was a research associate of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC) from 1998 to 2001.

Major Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Monographs

Journal Articles

Networks and Professional Organizations

Currently, Teehankee holds leadership positions in four prominent international networks: the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA); the Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA) network, the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and Money Politics: Patronage, Clientelism, and Electoral Dynamics in Southeast Asia.

He is the Executive Secretary of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA). APSIA Asia's leading academic organization dealing with political and international studies and allied disciplines. He previously served as APISA President from 2009 to 2011.

He is one of the convenors of the Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA) network. PAHSA is a multi-year (2011-2015) international collaboration project among four Japanese and five Southeast Asian universities, with the student exchange program as its main component.

Teehankee also serves as the Regional Manager for Northeast and Southeast Asia of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. V-Dem aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy.

Previously, he has served as Country Evaluator for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index Bertelsmann Transformation Index(BTI) reports for 2003 and 2014; and as Country Reporter for 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. BTI is a 128 country project focusing on the political management of the transformation toward Democracy and a Market Economy.

He is a member of the "Money Politics: Patronage, Clientelism, and Electoral Dynamics in Southeast Asia" project - a cross-national, multi-method study on money politics in Southeast Asia, tracing the character, causes and implications of patronage and clientelism in four middle-income, developing countries: Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. He is the country coordinator for the Philippine component of the project where 40 plus researchers will conduct a two week field investigation of the 2016 local elections.

He sat as board member of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA) and has served as its Secretary from 1995 to 1999. Currently, Teehankee is the associate editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal (PPSJ). He was formerly editor of the Asia Pacific Social Science Review (APSSR) and has recently been invited to be part of the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics – a new journal to be launced by Sage publication.

He is a lifetime member of the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, Beta Chapter, Philippines.

References

References:

  1. ↑ Academia.edu profile, https://dlsu.academia.edu/JulioTeehankee
  2. ↑ Academia.edu profile, https://dlsu.academia.edu/JulioTeehankee
  3. ↑ Tan, Antonio S. (1972), The Chinese in the Philippines, 1898-1935: A Study of Their National Awakening, Manila: R.P. Garcia Publishing Co.
  4. ↑ Profile of Dr. Jose Teehankee, Filipino-Chinese Medical Society
  5. ↑ Family records of the family of Don Pedro G. Cabral.
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