The book of Kristina Weissenbach, Assistant to the renowned party scholar Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Rudolf Kortte of the University of Duisburg-Essen, explains the background of the role of political parties with different party types in democratic order and the criteria for viable and sustainable political parties. With the specific social, political and cultural conditions in the Philippines considered, the second part of the paper describes conceptual approaches for the institutionalization of viable political parties in the Philippines.