PHILIPPINE POLITICS

AND GOVERNANCE
JONNAH B.SUBRIO
Course Outline
Lesson 1. Lesson 2.
Lesson 3.
THE CONCEPT OF POLITICS POLITICAL THE CONCEPT OF POWER
AND GOVERNANCE IDEOLOGIES

Lesson 4. Lesson 5. Lesson 6.

HISTORICAL
STATES, NATIONS AND THE LEGISLATIVE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
GLOBALIZATION DEPARTMENT
PHILIPPINES
Course Outline
Lesson 7. Lesson 8. Lesson 9.
THE EXECUTIVE THE JUDICIAL DECENTRALIZATION AND
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE

Lesson 10. Lesson 11. Lesson 12.

SUFFRAGE, ELECTION AND CIVIL SOCIETY AND CITIZENSHIP
POLITICAL PARTIES SOCIAL MOVEMENT
THE CONCEPT OF
POLITICS AND
GOVERNANCE
The learners are able to :
• Define Politics and governance and
understand the rules of the game.
• Develop a critical way of thinking and in
interpreting politics and governance
• Recognize the value and evaluate the
importance of politis in their everyday
dealings.
The meaning
of Politics
• The study of who gets what,
when and how. By Harold
Laswell.
• The master science. By
Aristotle
• Present in our daily dealings
in the polis.
• Social activity.
• Political animal.
The meaning
of Politics
• The exercise of power, the
science of government, the
making of collective
decisions, the allocation of
scarce resources and the
practice of deception and
manipulation.
• The process of making
government policies
The meaning
of Politics
• The exercise of power, the
science of government, the
making of collective
decisions, the allocations of
scarce resources and the
practice of deception and
manipulation.
• The process of making
government policies.
The meaning
of Politics
• The development of Political
Science
• Aristotle – “ Father of Political
Science”
• “Politics” – the first systematic
work focused on political
affairs
• Niccolo Machiavelli – “ Father
of Modern Political Science”
• “The Prince” – a handbook for
rulers in the art of government.
The meaning
of Politics
• Contemporary Time
• Prof. Francis Leiber
• “ Manual of Political Ethics
– the first systematic treatise
on political science that
gives as a well thorough
understanding of the
discipline
The meaning
of Politics
• Philippines
• Department of Political
Science
• College of Liberal Arts
• 1915
• University of the Philippines
The meaning
of Politics
• Teodore M. Kalaw – first
Filipino students of politics
• “ Manual Ciencia Politica ”
– 1918 – Political Science –
the nature and organization
of the State, the structure,
and functions of the high
branches of the government,
and the theory of political
and civil liberties.
The meaning
of Politics
• Political Science - The
systematic study of political
and governmental institutions
and processes.
• Political Institutions -
collection of relevant rules and
routines that determine
appropriate actions regarding
relations between roles and
situations involving the
determination of what situation
is, what role is being fulfilled
and what obligations of that
part in that situation is.
The meaning
of Politics
• Bluntschli –a Swiss scholar
• Political Science – the
science that concerned with
the state, which endeavors to
understand and comprehend
the state in its fundamental
conditions, in its essential
nature, its various form of
manifestation, its
development.
The meaning
of Politics
• Paul Janet – a French
Scholar.
• Political Science – that part
of science which treats the
foundations of the state and
the principles of the
government.
• Society in Macro in
perspectives.
CHARACTERISTICS OF POLITICS
1. Always involves making
collective decisions for
group of people.

2.Those decisions are made by

some members of the group
exercising power over members of
the group.
The Science of Politics
1. Basic knowledge and understanding
of the state and the principles and
ideals which underlie its organization
and activities.

2. Concerned with the association

of human being into body politic or
in a political community.

3. Deals with those relations among men and

groups which are subject to control by the
state, with the relation of men and groups to
the state itself and the relations of state to other
state.
Stages in the Study of Political Science
1.Religious Stage – the government,
its leaders and laws was considered
as divine or divinely inspired

2. Metaphysical stage – the state

was considered as a human
institutions and it is therefore
absolute ( cannot be changed)

3. Modern Stage – the state was

deemed capable of being improbed
by rulers and subjects according to
principles and laws.
Approaches in Defining Politics
Heywood Two Approaches taken
from Hay and Leftwich

a. Politics as an Arena or
Location

b. Politics as a Process or
Mechanism
The meaning of
Governance
• As old as human civilization.
• The process of decision-making and the
process by which decisions are
implemented or not implemented.
• Corporate governance
• International governance
• National governance
• Local governance
• by UNESCO FOR ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
GOOD
GOVERNANCE
• Assures that corruption is minimized
• The views of minorities are taken into
account
• The voices of the most vulnerable in
society are heard in decision making
• Responsive to the present and future needs
of society
Good Governance
Entails:
• Sound public sector management (efficiency,
effectiveness, and economy)
• Accountability
• Transparency – exchange and free flow of
information
• Legal framework for development (justice
and respect for human rights and liberties)
Good Governance
• Focused
• Legitimacy – government should have consent
of the governed
• Accountability – ensuring transparency , being
answerable for actions and media freedom
• Competence - effective policy making,
implementation and service delivery
• Respect for law and human rights
Characteristis
Of Good
Governance
• Participation
• Rule of law
• Transparency
• Responsiveness
• Consensus Oriented
• Effectiveness and
Efficiency
• Accountability
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