Philippine Politics

and Governance
AYRA GINICA E. TORTOLES
Camarines Sur National High School
REVIEW OF LESSONS
Politics, Government, and
Governance

Political
ideologies
Nature, Dimensions/
Types, & Consequences
of Power
Philippine Politics and Governance
PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING

What is power?
DEFINITION Etymology
potere - "to be able"
&NATURE
Being able to physically,
POWER intellectually, or a combination
both, to achieve what one wants

Ability to impose one's will on the

behavior of of other persons
-Max Weber
 Power as the "currency of
DEFINITION politics''
&NATURE
Enables collective decisions to
POWER be made and enforced

Ability to impose one's will on the

behavior of of other persons

-Max Weber

key political resource (leaders

serve and/or exploit ther subjects)
PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING
power
influence
authority
 TYPES OF POWER
1. Condign or coercive
brute force; ability to inflict punishment
2. Compensatory
achieving wants in exchange of something of value
3. Conditioned or influence
DIMENTIONS OF POWER
AUTHORITY Types:
acceptance that a 1. Charismatic authority
person in authority 2. Rational-legal
has the right to 3. Traditional
make decisions 4. Coercive
 COERCIVE
power to use force
AUTHORITY

CHARISMATIC RATIONAL-LEGAL TRADITIONAL

personal based on based on culture to give
magnetism established law allegiance to
institutional positions
DIMENTIONS OF POWER
LEGITIMACY
legitimare which means to be declared
lawful
belief that state's power to make and
enforce rules are justified and proper
inspires duty or obligation to obey
SOURCES OF POWER
 SOURCES OF POWER
from How to Understand Power by Eric Liu
1. Physical Force
2. Wealth
3. State action
4. Social Norms
5. Ideas
6. Numbers
CONSEQUENCES OF POWER
Commitment
Compliance
Resistance