Felix P. Muga II Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, Ateneo de Manila University Senior Fellow, Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) e-mail: fpmuga@admu.edu.ph, fmuga@ateneo.edu, lex_muga@yahoo.com blogspot: IRON59’S PLACE

Recent papers on the Party-List System in the Philippines:

1. The Negligence and the Violation of the State on the Proportional Party-List Sstem
2. On the Party-List Seat Allocation Issue, A Rejoinder to CJ Panganiban’s article on “Law, Mathematics and the Party-List System” (PDI, July 15, 2007)

3. Who is Ignoring the Law and Hiding the Facts?, a reply to Oscar Franklin Tan’s paper “Muga Ignores the Law.” Which appeared in the Talk of the Town section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (p. 14) on July 1, 2007,

4. The nth-Party Rule Violates the Policy of the Party-List Act, a critique of Oscar Franklin Tan’s article “Party-List System: Mathematical Absurdity” which appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (p.14) on June 24, 2007, 3^rd draft.

5. Philippine Party-List Syseattem: S Allocation Problem and Solution, 5^th draft

6. 2-Round Method Affirms the Principle of Proportional Representation in the House: Fills up the Total Number of Party-List Seats, Election Forensic 2007, News Release No. 08, Center for People Empowerment in Governance, June 15, 2007

7. Proportional Representation and the Panganiban Formula. Presented at the Media and Public Forum on "The First Party Rule: Danger to the Partylist System" on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:00 am to 12:00 noon organized by Inter-Partylist Task Force Poll Watch.

8. COMELEC’s Panganiban Doctrine Breaches Proportional Representation, Election Forensic 2007, News Release No. 07, Center for People Empowerment in Governance, June 7, 2007

9. The Veterans Formula of the Supreme Court Contradicts the Priniciple of Proportional Representation appeared in the Opinion Section, Yellow Pad Column of the Business World, May 14, 2007 edition.

10. The Party-List Law Contradicts the Principle of Proportional Representation

11. The Panganiban Formula Contradicts the Principle of Proportional Representation, Issue Analysis No. 6, Center for People Empowerment in Governance, May 5, 2007

12. The Negation of the Party-List System Act on the Principle of Proportional Representation appeared as a chapter in Oligarchic Politics: Elections and the Party-List System in the Philippines, CenPEG Books, May 2007.

13. Stakeholder-Based Allocation Method: A Fair Allocation of Power in the Philippine Party-List System appeared as a chapter in Oligarchic Politics: Elections and the Party-List System in the Philippines, CenPEG Books, May 2007.

14. On the Seat Allocation Error and the Principle of Proportional Representation was presented at the 2007 Philippine Computing Science Congress, February 23-24, 2007

15. On the Panganiban Seat Allocation Method (2^nd draft) was presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering, February 15-17, 2007

16. Analyzing the Proposed Amendments to RA 7941. It appeared as the Mathematics of Party-Lists in Eureka! of Queena Lee-Chua’s column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer for 3 Saturdays from April 30 to May 14, 2005.

17. Amending Republic Act 7941 Otherwise Known as the Pary-List System Act , Matimyas Matematika, Vol 28., Nos. 1-3, 2005.

18. On the Seat Allocation Method of the Party-List System in the Philippines, Loyola Schools Review, Vol. 4, 2005

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