Politics and Governance

Topics are politics and economics; politics & governance

I. Politics and Economics

Politics- The process of allocating scarce resources, where the elite or the masses compete over scare
resource, that is WEALTH, STATUS, AND POWER, through democratic or coercive means

Economics- a systematic study of how to allocate scarce resources to satisfy the growing needs and
growing wants of men (how to produce; how to distribute; how people consume; what is the
reparation, payment or compensation.)

The process of who gets WHAT, WHEN, and HOW

Legal, systematic, formal way

(to make, to preserve, to repeal, and to amend)

Democratic or coercive

Wealth, status, and power

***Identify the change, scarcity, and conflict from their definition!!!

II. Politics

POLITICS

PUBLIC AFFAIR COMPROMISE ART OF GOVERNING POWER

Everybody’s concern Settling conflicts Handling government Interactions

Just play, just society Resolve conflicts Activities of State Struggle to resources

by everybody Resolve issues Government officials Private and public

interactions
public sphere Negotiate problems Working in the gov’t
Interactivities of man
private sphere Conciliation Agreement/disagreement
Interactivities of
beast with reason Conflict resolution Political ads, promises etc sectors
good life community Consensus

What make these political?

Those who gets what

Those who gets when wealth, power, and status

Those who gets how

How to study politics?

Political science will look on to what?

a. art of government

b. conflict resolution

c. human and sectors interaction

d. in legal or illegal ways

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III. Governance

From your experience, pls share that you have made…

These are the keys not to governance but to good governance!!!

Governance is…

– Process of decision-making & the process by which decisions are implemented (Sheng,
U.N.E.S.C.A.P.)

– A government’s ability to make & enforce rules & to deliver services, regardless democratic or
not (Fukuyama, 2013)

– From Indian history- includes emphasizing justice, ethics, & anti-autocratic tendencies

– The manner in which public officials and institutions acquire & exercise the authority to shape
public policy & provide public goods & services (WB, 2007)

So Therefore…

• Is concerned with making or creating laws/ decisions, policies and its implementation … for public
policy, provides public goods and services

• Public officials or government officials have the role to think and do something for everybody

• These actions would lead to development/Concern not at the moment but for the future

Not to be influenced by the FEW, values & preference/ should go against the particular interest/
viewed as necessary to protect national interest (Hyden et al 2003)
 • Political Will (when politicians will push or do what they believe is right despite of disagreements w/
other sectors)

Matching type:
8 Characteristics of Good Governance
___ 1. direct or representative a. PARTICIPATION

___ 2. Receptive service with reasonable time frame b. CONSENSUS-ORIENTED

___ 3. Liability, culpability, answerability c. RULE OF LAW

___ 4. Clearly available and enough information d. EQUITY & INCLUSIVENESS

___ 5. Positive results for the needs of community e. TRANSPARENCY

___ 6. legally protected human rights f. EFFECTIVENESS & EFFICIENCY

___ 7. every member gets stake and opportunities g. RESPONSIVENESS

___ 8. best interest in meditation with different h. ACCOUNTABILITY

sectors
___ 9. Will stand with determination on the power i. POLITICAL WILL
bested

POLITICS IS… An art of governance GOVERNANCE… an act of effective and efficient authority

Compromise or Consensus governing with high ethics and morality

Power always making hard decisions

Public Affair practicing authority