What is Philippine Politics?

Politics of the Philippines take place in an organized framework of a

presidential, representative, and democratic republic whereby the president is both the
head of state and the head of government within a pluriform multi-party system. This
system revolves around three separate and sovereign yet interdependent branches: the
legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. Executive power is
exercised by the government under the leadership of the president. Legislative power is
vested in both the government and the bicameral Congress: the Senate (the upper
house) and the House of Representatives (the lower house). Judicial power is vested in
the courts with the Supreme Court of the Philippines as the highest judicial body.

What is governance?

Governance comprises all of the processes of governing – whether undertaken

by the government of a state, by a market or by a network – over a social system
(family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories) and
whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society.[1] It
relates to "the processes of interaction and decision-making among the actors involved
in a collective problem that lead to the creation, reinforcement, or reproduction of social
norms and institutions".[2] In lay terms, it could be described as the political processes
that exist in and between formal institutions.

A variety of entities (known generically as governing bodies) can govern. The

most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make
binding decisions in a given geopolitical system (such as a state) by establishing laws.
Other types of governing include an organization (such as a corporation recognized as a
legal entity by a government), a socio-political group (chiefdom, tribe, gang, family,
religious denomination, etc.), or another, informal group of people. In business and
outsourcing relationships, Governance Frameworks are built[by whom?] into relational
contracts that foster long-term collaboration and innovation