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Philippine Politics

and Governance
Philippine Politics and
Governance
🠶 This course introduces the students to the basic
concepts and vital elements of politics and governance
from a historical-institutional perspective.
🠶 In particular, it attempts to explain how the important
features of our country’s political structures/institutions,
processes, and relationships developed across time.
🠶 In the process, the course helps the learners gain a
better appreciation of their rights and responsibilities as
individuals and as members of the larger sociopolitical
community to strengthen their civic competence.
HOUSE RULES
🠶 Pay attention when somebody is discussing
something.
🠶 Always take down notes.
🠶 No cellphone during class sessions.
🠶 Observe deadlines.
🠶 Follow the seat plan. Not following it means
absent.
🠶 Ask question/s if you do not understand the
discussion.
Grading System

Performance Tasks 45%

Periodical Exam - 30%

Summative Exam Quizzes (S/L), Activities, Oral Participation- 25%


_____
Total: 100%

Passing rate: 75%


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Course outline
🠶 First Quarter 🠶 Second Quarter
🠶 The concepts of politics and 🠶 Decentralization and Local
governance Governance
🠶 Political Ideologies 🠶 Elections and Political Parties
🠶 Power (Nature, Dimensions, 🠶 Civil Society and Social
Types, Consequences ) Movements
🠶 States, Nations, and 🠶 Citizenship
Globalization
🠶 Integration
🠶 Historical Background of
Philippine Democratic Politics
🠶 The Executive
🠶 The Legislative
🠶 The Judiciary
FIRST QUARTER
CONTENT STANDARD
⮚ The learners demonstrate an understanding of
politics and political science, governance,
political ideologies, power, states, nations, and
globalization.
⮚ The learners demonstrate an understanding of
the historical background of Philippine
democratic politics, the executive, the
legislative, the judiciary, and decentralization
and local governance.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD
⮚The learners shall be able to clearly
identify a specific political
phenomenon and how it can be
studied.
⮚The learners shall be able to
explain the roles of different
political institutions.
The concepts of
Politics and
Governance
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
The learners will be able to:
🠶 articulate definitions of politics;
🠶 differentiate the various views on politics;
🠶 explore the connection between the
phenomenon (politics) and the method of
inquiry (Political Science);
🠶 recognize the value of politics; and,
🠶 differentiate governance from government.
POLITICS
GOVERNME
GOVERNANCE
NT
How important
politics is in one’s
daily living?
Activities that relate to influencing
the actions and policies of a
government and getting or keeping
the power in a government

POLITICS

The work or job of people The opinions that


(such as the elected someone has about what
officials) who are part of a should be done by the
government governments
GOVERNMENT
- The body with the power to make and/or
enforce laws to control a country, land area,
people or organization.
- The agency through which the will of the state
is formulated, expressed and carried out.

GOVERNANCE
- The process, or the power, of governing.
- The specific system by which a political system
is ruled.
- The group of people who make up an
administrative body.
GOVERNME
NT laws for GOVERNANCE
- Agency that the
benefit - System or
formulates, process of
of the
expresses and people governing
carries out the
will of the state
Forms of government
As to number of persons exercising sovereign powers:
1. Monarchy – one in which the supreme and final authority is in the hands of a
single person without regard to the source of his election or the nature of
duration of his tenure.
a. Absolute monarchy – one in which the ruler rules by divine right.
b. Limited monarchy – one in which the ruler rules in accordance with a constitution.
2. Aristocracy – one in which political power is exercised by a few privileged
classes which is known as an aristocracy (noble) or oligarchy (wealthy).
3. Democracy – one in which political power is exercised by a majority of the
people.
c. Direct or pure democracy – one in which the will of the state is formulated or expressed
directly and immediately through the people in a mass meeting or primary assembly.
d. Indirect, representative, or republican democracy – one in which the will of the state is
formulated and expressed through the agency of a relatively small and select body of
persons chosen by the people to as their representatives.
Forms of government
As to extent of powers exercised by the central or
national government:
1. Unitary government – one in which the control of
national and local affairs is exercised by the central or
national government.
2. Federal government – one in which the powers of
government are divided between two sets or organs,
one for national affairs and the other for local affairs,
each organ being supreme within its own sphere.
Forms of government
As to relationship between the executive and the legislative
branches of the government:
1. Parliamentary government – one in which the state
confers upon the legislature the power to terminate the
tenure of office of the real executive..
2. Presidential government – one in which the state makes
the executive constitutionally independent of the
legislature as regards his tenure and to a large extent as
regards to his policies and acts, and furnishes him with
sufficient powers to prevent the legislature from
trenching upon the sphere marked out by the constitution
as executive independence and prerogative.
How important
politics is in one’s
daily living?
POLITICAL SCIENCE
❖Political – derived from the Greek polis,
meaning “a city or a sovereign state.”
❖Science – comes from the Latin scire,
meaning “to know.”

🠶It is the systematic study of


the state and government.
🠶 The science of politics, therefore, has, as its formal
object, a basic knowledge and understanding of
the state and of the principles and ideals which
underlie its organization and activities.
🠶 It is primarily concerned with the association of
human beings into a “body politic,” or a political
community (one organized under government and
law).
🠶 It deals with those relations among men and
groups which are subject to control by the state,
with the relations of men and groups to the state
itself. And with the relations of the state to the
other states.
Scope
🠶 Political theory – the entire body of doctrines relating to the
origin, form, behavior, and purposes of the state are dealt with in
the study of political theory.
🠶 Public law – the (a) organization of governments, (b) the
limitations upon government authority, (c) the powers and duties
of governmental offices and officers, and (d) the obligations of
one state to another are handled in the study of public law. [a-b:
constitutional law; c: administrative law; and, d: international law]
🠶 Public administration – in the study of public administration,
attention is focused upon the methods and techniques used in
the actual management of state affairs by executive, legislative
and judicial branches of government.
Functions and importance
1.The functions of political science is to discover the principles
that should be adhered to in public affairs and to study the
operations of government in order to demonstrate what is
good, to criticize what is bad or inefficient, and to suggest
improvements.
2.Its findings and conclusions may be of immense practical use
to constitution-makers, legislators, executives, and judges who
need models or norms that can be applied to immediate
situations.
3.The study of political science deals also with problems of social
welfare, governmental economic programs, international
cooperation, and a wide range of other matters that are urgent
Goal
1.Education for citizenship.
2.Essential parts of liberal education.
3.Knowledge and understanding of
government.
Assignment
🠶How does the study of
political science relates to
other branches of learning?
🠶Identify at least 7 political
ideologies and explain their
principle.

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