This document defines key concepts in political science and Philippine politics. It defines politics as the interaction between people characterized by conflict and cooperation to solve disagreements through binding solutions. Governance is defined as the methods used by the state to impose and dispose rules in a society through the use of will/power. The state is defined as an organized political community under one government. It differentiates these terms and explains different views on defining politics.

1. PHILIPPINE POLITICS
AND GOVERNANCE

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
02
Explain the value of
politics.
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OBJECTIVES

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5. “MAN, BY NATURE,
IS A POLITICAL
ANIMAL .”

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.

7. THE CONCEPTS OF POLITICS AND
GOVERNANCE

8. Set
Of
Concepts on Politics and
Governance
Operation

9. MECHANICS
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POLITICS

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.

13. THE DIFFERENT VIEWS ON
POLITICS

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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

17. #THE MYSTERY OF PAST
Aristotle

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

19. # BRING WHERE IT BELONGS
POWER
OWPRE

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.

24. # BRING WHERE IT BELONGS
SCARCITY
CITYCARS

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

26. CONCLUSION…
The inescapable presence of diversity
and scarcity ensures that politics is an
inevitable feature of the human
condition.

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.

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STATE

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.

33. GOVERNANCE
The methods of imposing and
disposing rules in the society
through the used of will/power.

34. GOVERNANCE
The methods of imposing and
disposing rules in the society
through the used of will/power.

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