Julio C. Teehankee


Julio Cabral Teehankee is a Filipino political scientist. He is a Full Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University. In 2013, he was appointed Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at DLSU. He previously served as Chair of the International Studies Department ; and, Chair of the Political Science Department.
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 on elections, party politics, and political dynasties in the Philippines and Japan.
His research includes presidentialism in Asia; comparative constitutional dynamics in East and Southeast Asia; and the post-crisis development architecture. He has appeared regularly on .

Education

Julio Teehankee finished his elementary education at the Ateneo Grade School 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 and his bachelor's degree major in Political Science from De La Salle University. He earned his master's degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
From 2007 to 2008, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo under a .

Personal background

His paternal grandfather José Tee Han Kee, immigrated to the Philippines in 1901 from Amoy, China. He was a close associate and friend of Sun Yat-Sen, and was active in the struggle to liberate China from the Qing dynasty. 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 .
Julio's uncle, Claudio O. Teehankee, was the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Julio's maternal grandfather, Pedro G. Cabral founded the in 1923. His aunt Myrna O. Cabral became the Mother Superior of the Holy Spirit Adoration Order in the Philippines. Myrna took the name Sister Mary Hermenegildes, and later became the order's Mother Prioress and served as spiritual adviser to former president Corazon C. Aquino and Pope John Paul II.

Research and academic affiliations

Julio Teehankee was a visiting professor at the in 2015. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the in 2002; a Sumitomo Foundation research grantee at the , 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 , Japan from July 1995 to July 1996.
Since 2002, he has been a board member of the . He served as NIPS vice president and managing trustee from 2002-2006 and 2009.
He is a senior fellow of the since 2001. He served as the Institute's executive director from 2006 to 2007. He is also a senior fellow of the since 1996 and the since 1999.
He was a research associate of the from 1998 to 2001.

Major publications

Books

Teehankee holds leadership positions in four prominent international networks: the Asian Political and International Studies Association ; the Peace and Human Security in Asia network, the Varieties of Democracy project, and Money Politics: Patronage, Clientelism, and Electoral Dynamics in Southeast Asia.
He is the Executive Secretary of the . 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 network. PAHSA is a multi-year 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 for Northeast and Southeast Asia of the project. V-Dem aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy.
Previously, he has served as Country Evaluator for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 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 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 and has served as its Secretary from 1995 to 1999. Currently, Teehankee is the associate editor of the . He was formerly editor of the and has recently been invited to be part of the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics – a new journal to be launched by Sage publication.
He is a lifetime member of the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, Beta Chapter, Philippines.