2. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• Is the implementation of government policy and also an
academic discipline that studies this implementation and
prepares civil servants for working in a public service. As a
“field of inquiry with a diverse scope” its “fundamental
goal…is to advance management and policies so that
government can function.
3. GOVERNMENT
•A government is the system or group of people
governing an organized community, often a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition,
government normally consist of legislature,
administration, and judiciary.
4. BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT
• 1. The Legislative branch is authorized to make laws,
alter and repeal them through the power vested in the
Philippine Congess. This institution is divided into the
Senate and the House of Representatives.
• 2. The Executive Branch carries out laws. It is
composed of the President and the Vice President who
are elected by direct popular vote and serve a term of
six years.
5. • 3. The Judicial branch evaluates laws. It hold the
power to settle controversies involving rights that
are legally demandable and enforceable. It is
made up of Supreme court and lower courts.
6. POLITICS
• Politics is the way that people living in groups make
decisions. Politics is about making agreements
between people so that they can live together in
groups such as tribes, cities, or counties. In large
groups, such as countries, some people may spend a
lot of their time making such agreements. These
people are called politicians. Politicians, and
sometimes other people, may get together to form a
government.
7. TWO APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF
POLITICS
• Political Philosophy – it is the traditional approach in
which the primary goal is to understand the essence or
the truth about politics.
• Political Science- it is the empirical / objective approach
in which it places little emphasis on abstract and
normative question, and concentrates on a dispassionate
and objective of the realities of politics.
8. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
•are as old as the history of people working
together in large groups. These have been
essential features of human society long
before the dawn of recorded history. Ever
since man emerged from the most primitive
forms of association, he has had to devise
administrative system.
9. CARLTON CLYMER RODEE, CARL QUIMBY
CHRISTOL, AND TOTTON JAMES ANDERSON
• Believe….
• That there should be a clear distinction between politics, or
the formulation of public policy, on the other hand, and
administration, or the carrying out of such policy on the other
hand. Policy in a democracy, must be the result of give and
take of politics and politicians: but administration should be
entrusted to the trained, expert administrators, chosen for
their competence, not their political affiliation.
10. MARSHALL E. DIMOCK, LOUIS W. KOENIG
• Put in…
• “an understanding of politics is the key to an
understanding of public administration.”
11. •In this chapter, attempts will be made to
consider the following subjects:
• 1. FOUNDATION OF GOVERNMENT AND
POLITICS
•Culture is a way of life. It refers to the
abstraction of characteristics acquired by an
individual or group of individuals through
learning after birth. It also represents the
influence upon the individual of his
12. • Social elements constitute culture which includes the
family system, child-rearing, and the language they
speak and write.
• It is to these basic elements that people in the common
environment identify with each other as individuals
belonging to a particular group. It is therefore, the
extent of common goal that leads to their political
identity and solidarity.
• On the other hand, “politics is a search for ends as well
as means”.
13. • It is the whole range of man’s endeavor to govern himself, to
provide a structure and practice for the exercise of political
power.
• Ideally, the focus in the organization of a government,
however is the need of the people. A government is needed
by a nation or a state. The state involves
• 1. agencies,
• 2. exercises its sovereignty,
• 3.uses its power,
• 4. and has the right to allocate goods and services within the
system.
14. •The viability of any political organization is
affected by various factors. Among these factors
are:
• 1. people
• 2. territory
• 3. natural resources
• 4. technology
• 5. economic capacity to make the political unit alive.
15. • The citizen’s needs and demands made upon the
government also contribute to the viabilility of the political
unit.
• Political scientists point to protection from the forces of
lawlessness and violence, domestic as well as foreign as the
basic need of the citizen.
• In all political communities, “there is a widespread
expectation that government should pursue what is
variously called public interest, the general welfare, or the
common good.”
• “Effective security therefore, had to be collective security.”
16. •Politics in Public Administration are so intertwined
that it is impossible to speak of one without
mentioning the other.
•There can be no public administration without
politics and no politics without public
administration.
•All aspects of government operation revolves in a
political environment.
