'The Philippines', to be published in Climate Change and Regional Security, edited by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School.
'Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea Under Park Chung-Hee and the Philippines Under Ferdinand Marcos', in Byung-Kook Kim and Ezra Vogel, eds, The Park Era, Volume One: Formation and Consolidation (forthcoming 2009).
'The Hazards of Jeffersonianism: Challenges of State Building in the U.S. and Its Empire', in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds, Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of a Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2009).
'The Arroyo Imbroglio in the Philippines', Journal of Democracy 19, no. 1 (January 2008): 141-155.
'Philippines', a chapter in Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Democratic Governance (New York: Freedom House, September 2007).
'Government of the Philippines' entry in World Book Advanced. Uploaded Nov 2005. http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar427030.
'Paradoxes of Decentralization: The Political Dynamics Behind the Passage of the 1991 Local Government Code of the Philippines' in KPI Yearbook 200, ed. Michael H. Nelson (Bangkok: King Prajadhipok's Institute, 2004).
Review of Patricio N. Abinales, Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000. Journal of Asian Studies 62, no. 4 (November 2003): 1313-1315.
Review of John T. Sidel, Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pacific Affair, 76, no.3 (Fall 2003): 505-507.
'Strong Demands and Weak Institutions: The Origins and Evolution of the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines' (co-authored with Joel Rocamora), Journal of East Asian Studies 3, no. 2 (May-August 2003): 259-292.
'Containing Corruption: Can States and Civil Societies Deliver?', a contribution to the debates section of New Political Economy 7, no. 4 (November 2002): 441-445.
'Political Economy' (co-authored with Emmanuel S. de Dios), in The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and Challenges, ed. Arsenio Balisacan and Hal Hill (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 and Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2002).
'Centralization and Decentralization in Administration and Politics: Assessing Territorial Dimensions of Authority and Power', Governance 14, no. 1 (January 2001): 23-53.
'Colonial Masters, National Politicos, and Provincial Lords: Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the American Philippines, 1900-1913',Journal of Asian Studies 59, no. 2 (May 2000): 277-306.
'Obstructive Corruption: The Politics of Privilege in the Philippines', in Rents, Rent-Seeking and Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia, eds, Mushtaq H. Khan and Jomo K.S. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
'After the Fall: Prospects for Political and Institutional Reform in Post-Crisis Thailand and the Philippines', Government and Opposition 34, no. 4 (Autumn 1999): 473-98.
'Neither Dynamo Nor Domino: Reforms and Crises in the Philippine Political Economy', in The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, ed. T.J. Pempel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). (Also Singapore: Graham Brash Ltd., 1999).
'U.S.-Asian Interactions: Current Issues of Political Economy in Historical Perspective', in North America and the Asia-Pacific in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperative Security and Prosperity, ed. K.S. Nathan (London: Asean Academic Press in cooperation with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, 1999).
Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. (Also Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1998, reprinted 2000.)
'Sustaining Economic and Political Reform: The Challenges Ahead', in The Philippines: New Directions in Domestic Policy and Foreign Relations, ed. David G. Timberman (New York: Asia Society, 1998).
'The Politics of Economic Liberalization: Promise and Prospects, The Ramos Years and Beyond', Public Policy (a journal of the University of the Philippines) vol. 1, no. 1 (1997).
'The Politics of Privilege: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Third World Development', Political Studies 45, no. 3 (September 1997): 639-58. Reprinted in 1) Political Corruption, ed. Paul Heywood (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997); 2) The Politics of Corruption, ed. Robert Williams (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2000); 3)Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts (3rd edition), ed. Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Michael Johnston (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002); and 4) Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook, ed. Steven Kotkin and Andras Sajo (Budapest: Central European Univ. Press, 2002).
'The Philippines at the Crossroads: Sustaining Economic and Political Reforms', an 'Asian Update' produced by the Asia Society for the November 1996 meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in the Philippines (New York: Asia Society, 1996).
'Unraveling the Past in the Philippines', Current History (December 1995): 430-34. Reprinted in Issues and Letters (a publication of the Philippine Center for Policy Studies), vol. 5, no. 1 (1996).
'Assessing Recent Political Developments in the Philippines: Continuity amidst Change or Change amidst Continuity?', the 'American response' to papers presented at the November 29, 1994 dialogue of the '"Focus on the Philippines', a public education project of the Asia Society and the Asian Institute of Management. Published in Focus on the Philippines: Dialogue on Political Developments (New York: The Asia Society, 1995).
'Power and Politics in the Philippine Banking Industry: An Analysis of State-Oligarchy Relations', inPatterns of Power and Politics in the Philippines: Implications for Development, ed. James F. Eder and Robert L. Youngblood (Tempe: ASU Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 1994). Reprinted in Philippine Political Science Journal, no. 37-38 (1993-94).
'Booty Capitalism: An Analysis of Government-Business Relations in the Philippines', in Government and Business in Industrializing Asia, ed. Andrew MacIntyre (Sydney: Allen and Unwin and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
'Oligarchs and Cronies in the Philippine State: The Politics of Patrimonial Plunder', World Politics 43, no. 1 (April 1991): 414-450. Reprinted in 1) The Political Economy of East Asia, ed. John Ravenhill (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1994); and 2) The Politics of Corruption, ed. Robert Williams (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2000).
'A State Besieged: Observations on Historical Patterns of State-Elite Relations in the Philippines', Issues and Letters 1, no. 4 (1990).
'Situating the Philippine Political Economy: Import-Substitution Industrialization in Comparative Perspective', Kasarinlan 4, no. 4 (1989): 39-56. (Kasarinlan is a publication of the Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines.)
Op-ed contributions published in the Hong Kong Standard and the Philippine Daily Inquirer, late May-early June 2004; Korea Herald, PDI, and Wisconsin State Journal, late Oct-early Nov 2003; and the International Herald Tribune and Hartford Courant, May 1987.