Chapter-4-Government-and-Politics-in-Public-Administration (1).pptx

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1. Chapter 4:Government and politics in public administration Reporters: Gracel V. Legada Jocel C. Suico

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 environment.

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.

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