Republic Act (RA) No. 7941, or the Party-List System Act of 1995, seeks to promote the participation of the marginalized and underrepresented sectors of society in policymaking. However, two decades after its passage, confusion and controversy still hound the Philippines' experiment with proportional representation. Party-list members are being criticized for their lackluster performance as legislators. This policy brief provides an exploratory examination of the party-list system as a policy platform by analyzing legislative output for each representative and comparing the performance of party-list representatives with their district counterparts, for the period beginning from the party-list laws institutional inception in 1998 all the way up to 2016. The results of the analysis show that while party-list representatives are more motivated than the typical legislator in sponsoring legislative proposals, they are less likely to solicit support for these measures in the Lower House, and consequently, less effective in translating bills into laws. As far as peddling policies are concerned, the chief executive's partisan allies in Congress remain to be the most effective. Recommendations for reform of the party-list system to improve the performance of partylist representatives in policy-making are also discussed.