271 Index Australia, 5, 95 Australian Agency for International Development, 127 Authoritarian rule, 65n2: Philippine transition from, 44–46 Authority, Abuse of, 76 Automated election system, 144, 147, 157, 158, 170, 171–72, 176: deciency, 150; failure, 153–55, 248; implementation, 177, 190, 197; manipulation, 146, 152; transparency/accuracy, 53 Autonomous Muslim region, 45, 65n3 Authoritarian regime, 205 Authoritarianism, 228, 229, 241 Automated Election Law (R. A. 9369), 157, 162, 170, 179 Automated Election System (AES), 144, 147, 154, 171, 190, 198: problems, 155, 190; rigging, 198; Smartmatic, 152, 155, 157, 163, 168 Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch), 153, 161, 162, 164, 165, 168, 171–72, 190 Automation Project, 157, 256 Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), 174 Averia, Lito, 174 Aviation Security Command, 97 Award for Continuing Excellence, 128 B Bagares, Romel, 178 Ballots, 143 Baltazar, Francisco: protest poem, 25 BANAT (Party List), 59 Banausikos. Search under Artisans Bantay Dagat (protection of coastal areas), 134n3 Batanes: HDI ranking, 61 Barangay Administration and Training Manual (BATMAN), 134n7 Barangay Bayan Governance Consortium, 134n7 Barinaga, Roseller, 187 BATMAN. Search under Barangay Administration and Training Manual Bautista, Andres, COMELEC Chairman, 168, 173 Bayan Muna (Party List), 59, 117, 187: versus COMELEC, 187 Belen, Miguel 210 Bello, Walden, 187 Bibingka (Filipino rice cake) model, 135n9 Bishop Businessmen Conference (BBC), 30 Blaine, Jack, 160 BLGF. Search under Bureau of Local Government Finance Blogs, 204, 223, 224 Bobbio, Norberto, 9 Bohol, 128 Boix, Carles, 47, 251. Democracy and Redistribution, 21 Bollen, Kenneth A., 18, 19 Borras, Saturnino “Jun,” 135n9 Bottom Up Budgeting (BuB) program, 119, 127 Brillantes, Sixto, Jr., Comelec Chairman, 150, 155, 164, 165, 166, 167–68: “group canvas report”, 164; Smartmatic, 156, 157, 160, 165, 167–68 Broadcast Code, 210, 217–18 Broadcasting, 216–17: licensing, 217 Brocka, Lino, Filmmaker, 205 BuB program. Search under Bottom Up Budgeting (BuB) program Budget, power over the, 114–15, 127 Budget preparation, Rules on, 92–95 BUHAY (Party List), 59 Bulacan, 128,166 BUNGOs (Business NGOs), 142 Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF), 130 “Bureaucratic aristocracy,” 119 Bush, George W., President, 142 Butuyan, Joel, 178 C Cadiz Constitution of 1812, 75 Campus journalism, 216 Canada: anti-corruption programs, 95 Canadian International Development Agency, 127 Capuno, Joseph (2005), 124, 125 Carpio, Antonio, 188 Casiño, Edmundo, 169, 170 Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, 180 Cayetano, Alan Peter, 167 Cebu: HDI ranking, 61 Celis, Nelson, 165, 167, 169, 190 Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), 61, 153–54, 169, 176, 187, 190, 191–92, 198–99 Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, 209 Change Politics Movement (CPM), 117–18, 134n6 Check and balances, System of, 79, 81, 86–88,