
Adele WebbUniversity of Canberra · Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Adele Webb
PhD
Democratic Ambivalence, Citizen Engagement, Political Attitudes
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Adele Webb is Research Fellow in Democracy and Citizen Engagement at the University of Canberra's Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance.
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This investigative report by Jubilee Australia highlights circumstances, events and impacts associated with Exxon Mobil’s US $19 billion Gas Project in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Southern Highlands. The PNG LNG Project is the largest single development in the history of Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific. The Project will see ExxonMobil and its joint...
Risky Business, launched by Jubilee Australia in 2009, shines a spotlight on EFIC, Australia's export credit agency, and its support of risky extractive projects in developing countries. The report aims to make EFIC more accountable to Australians, asking a number of tough questions surrounding EFIC’s social policies and its responsibilities to the...
What does it mean for countries to be broke? Why does it keep happening? Who should bear the cost? This report published for Jubilee Australia, examines the history and key patterns of international insolvency. It denounces the Bretton Woods Institutions for their history of poor policy advice and financial mismanagement, which should clearly bar t...
INTRODUCTION This chapter is an attempt to write the eight-year history of Australia's first debt-for-development exchange. This is a story not just about the benevolence of Australia, sacrificing money owed to it in order to assist poor Indonesian children suffering from tuberculosis. It is also a story about the consequences of rich-country polic...
How did Rodrigo Duterte earn the support of large segments of the Philippine middle class, despite imposing arbitrary authority and offering little tolerance for dissent? Has the Filipino middle class, heroes of the 1986 People Power Revolution, given up on democracy?
Chasing Freedom tells the story of the love/hate relationship of the Philippine...
Public ambivalence towards democracy has come under increasing scrutiny. It is a mood registered perhaps most clearly in the fact populist figures, from Trump to Orbàn to Duterte, appear to carry strong appeal despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact, they pose a threat to democratic institutions and processes of governance. Are ambivalent...
Trump of the East, Duterte Harry, the bastard child of Philippine democracy—these are some of what ways in which Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been depicted by the international press. This chapter seeks to go beyond these convenient labels and propose a historicized, contextualized, and critical approach to studying populism in the Phil...
Australians are some of the world’s greatest users of social media and mobile broadband, and our nation is in the top ten globally for internet use. At a time when our use of these technologies is increasingly redefining aspects of our personal and professional lives, Digital Rights in Australia explores urgent questions about the nature of our rig...
In the May 2016 elections, a significant number from among the Philippine urban middle class helped elect President Rodrigo Duterte, a candidate who seemed to pose a threat to democratic governance. The voting behavior of a Philippine middle class "who should know better" has caught the attention of many foreign observers, and raised the question:...
A century before George W. Bush’s ‘Freedom Agenda’ in Afghanistan, US military forces invaded the Philippines in the name of democracy. The four decades of American colonial occupation that followed are still largely seen in popular and scholarly literature, as a benign attempt to establish democracy in the 'Far East'. In political terms, scholars...
This chapter tries to understand the resonance of a political figure like Duterte by taking a historical view of political narratives and political discourses in the Philippines over the long twentieth century.
After first discussing Duterte’s populist discourse and opening the puzzle of why it seems to fall on fertile ground, the chapter explore...
Debt-for-development exchanges are an important financing tool for development. They make debt relief more politically and practically attractive to donor countries and serve the development of recipient countries through the cancellation of external debt and the funding of important development projects. This book commences by chronicling the emer...