2. THE BASICS OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE AND PHILIPPINE
POLITICS
3. Define politics,
governance, and other
key concepts of political
science;
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Differentiate
governance and
politics; and
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Explain the value of
politics.
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6. The inclination and interest of
people toward anything political is
based on the fact that individuals
are inherently social. Unlike other
species, humans rely on social
interaction to survive. Politics is
born out of these social
interaction.
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11. POLITICS
Is an activity that involves the
interaction of people, whose
relationship is characterized by
conflict and cooperation, and who
come together to solve such
disagreements through binding
solutions. (Heywood 2013)
Actions or activities concerned
with achieving and using power in
a country or society.
12. POLITICS It also determines
who shall occupy
roles of leadership
in government
and how powers
of government
shall be exercised.
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GOVERNMENT
15. This is a state-centered view of politics
that Politics is what governments or
states do.
It means that most people, most
institutions and most social activities can
be regarded as being outside politics.
Businesses, schools and other educational
institutions, community groups, families
and so on are in this sense nonpolitical.
Politics as the art of government
16. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
Politics is thought of aspublic life or
public affairs.
Thedistinction between the political
andthe nonpolitical corresponds with
the division between an essentially
public sphere of life and what can be
thought of asaprivate sphere.
Politics as public affair
18. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
In Politics, Aristotle declared that “man is by
nature a political animal” - He meant that it is
only within a political community that human
beingscanlive the good life
Politicsisanethicalactivity concernedwith creating
ajustsociety.
Politics as public affair
20. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
The third conception of politics relates to the
way in which decisions aremade.
Politics is seen as a particular means of
resolving conflict: that is, by compromise,
conciliation and negotiation.
Politics becomesthe processof“conflict
resolution.”
Politics as compromise and consensus
21. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
POLITICS AS A POWER
Politics as power and distribution of resources
Politics takes place at
everylevel of social
interaction.
22. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
POLITICS AS A POWER
Politics as power and distribution of resources
It can be found within families and
amongst small groups of friends
just as much as amongst nations
and on the globalstage.
23. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
Politics as Distribution of
Resources
Politics as power and distribution of resources
At its broadest, politics concerns
the production, distribution and
use of resources in the course of
socialexistence.
25. E.A.NARCISO, Social Science
From this perspective,
politics isabout diversity
and conflict.
The essential ingredient is
the existenceof scarcity
Politics as Distribution of Resources
28. GOVERNMENT
Is the instrument of the state through which
the will of the people is expressed, carried
out, and formulated.
The political system by which a country
or community is administered and regulated.
29. REMINDER TO THE READERS!!!
The terms state and
government, so with
governance (and
government) are commonly
used interchangeably, but in
strict political science terms,
they definitely mean different
things from each other.
31. STATE
In common parlance State
is a country considered as
an organized Political
community by one
government .
32. STATE
Anyhow when we used the
term state in the field of
international relation , it has
the symbolic sense of
signifying the existence of an
independent sovereign entity.
35. GOVERNANCE
governance is about the
culture and institutional
environment in which citizens
and stakeholders interact
among themselves and
participate in public affairs.
36. “the way of
leadership through
the use of political
practice.”
2009 Global Monitoring
Report sees governance
Editor's Notes
Politics can therefore be seen as a struggle over scarce resources, and power can be seen as the means through which this struggle is conducted.
Refer to structures and processes that are designed to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of law, stability, equity and inclusiveness, empowerment, and broad-based participation.
Refer to structures and processes that are designed to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of law, stability, equity and inclusiveness, empowerment, and broad-based participation.
An example of governance is the mayor's decision to increase the police force in response to burglaries.
An example of governance is the mayor's decision to increase the police force in response to burglaries.