DOI: 10.1111/aspp.12472 Asian Politics & Policy—Volume 11, Number 3—Pages 417–437 © 2019 Policy Studies Organization. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. “We are Rodrigo Duterte”: Dimensions of the Philippine Populist Publics' Vote Cleve V. Arguelles* Populism is about populist publics as much as it is about populist leaders. Presently, they are pejoratively represented in public and academic conversations. Populist voting is mostly approached as a social pathology, especially in mainstream populism studies. This study is a contribution to the emerging tradition of extending empathetic approaches to the study of populist publics by interrogating how populist supporters make sense of their votes and politics through their own perspectives. Using a year-long political ethnography of supporters of populist Philippine president Rodrigo Roa Duterte in a big slum community in Metro Manila, this research offers an intimate understanding of the electoral motivations of those who voted for him. Specifically, their vote for the populist Duterte is about making their everyday misery visible, bringing authenticity to politics, and overcoming bureaucratic inertia. Empirical observations in the field reveal the unique threefold representational, experiential, and action-oriented dimensions of populist publics’ vote in the Philippines. Key words: Philippine elections, political ethnography, populism, populist voters, Rodrigo Duterte “我们都德里戈·杜特尔特”：菲律宾粹主义大众投票的不同层面 粹主义与粹主义大众、粹主义领导者的相关度一样的。目前公共交流和学术交 流中对这二者的表述都含有贬义。粹主义投票基本被视为一种社会病态，这在主流 粹主义研究中尤为。本文通过质疑粹主义支持者如何从各自视角理解投票和政 ，对在粹主义研究中添加移情措施这一新兴传做出了贡献。通过使用一项持一 年的，针对菲律宾粹主义总德里戈·亚·杜特尔特（Rodrigo Roa Duterte ）支 持者（来自大马尼拉市中的一个大型贫窟社区）的政族志研究，本文深入理解了 那些为杜特尔特投票的选动机。特别地，选为粹主义者杜特尔特投票希望让自 己的每遭遇得到关注，让政回归真实，让官僚惰性得以克服。 实证观察果示了菲律 宾粹主义公众投票的三个独特方面：代表性，经验性和以行动为导向。 关键词：德里戈•杜特尔特，粹主义，粹主义选，菲律宾选举，政族志 *Cleve V. Arguelles is PhD candidate at the Department of Political and Social Change at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs of the Australian National University.