FIRST SUMMATIVE EXAMINATION

Philippines Politics and Governance

Name: __________________________________________ Section:_________________ Score: __________

Choose the letter of the answer from the from the options below.
A. Politics B. Niccolo Machiavelli C. Teodoro M. Kalaw
D. Politics as an Arena or location E. Concept of Politics
F. Politics as a Process or mechanism Political Science

___1. It is the exercise of power, the science of government, the making of collective decisions, the allocations of scarce
resources and the practice of deception and manipulation
___2. He is The Father of Modern Political Science and wrote “The Price” a handbook for rulers in the art of
government.
___3. Politics is associated with an arena or area, in which case behavior becomes ‘political because of where it takes
place. This includes the art of government and public affairs.
___4. It exhibits distinctive characteristics or qualities, and so can take place in any, and perhaps all, social context. It
includes compromise and consensus, and power and the distribution of resources.
___5. He is the first Filipino student of politics and defined political science in his Manual Ciencia Politica in 1918 as,
“the nature and organization of the State, the structure, and functions of the high branches of government, and the
theory of political and civil liberties (Agpalo, 1998).

Choose the letter of the answer from the from the options below.
A. Rule of thieves B. History C. Political Culture D. Society E. Culture F. Post Materialism

___1. It is the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments, which give order and meaning to a political process and which
provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the political system.
___2. It is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.
___ 3. It is the degree to which a political culture is concerned with issues which are not of immediate physical or
material concern, such as human rights and environmentalism.
___4. It is what we call a large group of similar or different people that want to interact with each other and share a
territory. It is usually being governed in one way or another by its culture and its politics.
___5. It is a branch of knowledge dealing with past events. A continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating
to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account.

Choose the letter of the answer from the from the options below.
A. Environmentalism B. Fundamentalism C. Fascism D. National Socialism E. Feminism

_____ 1. It claimed to espouse a nationalist totalitarian form of socialism as opposed to the Marxist International
Socialism and it Marxist Concept of class conflict and universal equality but instead embraced the Social Darwinism
theory to highlight it’s racist view of racial order.
_____ 2. It seeks to improve the political, social and economic position of women due to dominance of men in almost all
societies in the world.
_____ 3. It is part of the Nationalism Movement with influences from Ideas of Socialism but with strong conception of
State, its character, its duty, and its aims and conceived the state as an absolute entity in which all individuals or groups
are relative.
_____ 4. It is a social movement, or an ideology focused on the welfare of the environment, and seeks to protect the
elements of earth’s ecosystem in order to correct the damage as well as prevent future destruction of the world.
_____ 5. It is a religious movement that aimed to preserve their way of life in their sociocultural-economic system but
were force to retaliate due to the aggressiveness domination of the Liberalist and Socialist Ideas in their current
societies.
Read carefully each item and write T if you think the statement is correct or F if you think otherwise.

___1. Government is the medium through which the power of the state is employed.
___2. Governance is how society or groups within it, organize to make decisions.
___ 3. An autocratic government may be defined as that which has the public mandate to run the affairs of the country
with a well-defined term after which in the successive term the same people may be elected again.
___4. Good governance is the decline in institutional integrity and capacity, aggravated by arbitrary actions and further
compromised by a conflict of interests.
___5. The Philippine government takes place in an organized framework of a presidential, representative, and
democratic republic whereby the president is both the head of state and the head of government.
___6. Ideology provides an explanation for problems that confronts modern society by providing futuristic vision.
___7. Ideology provides its believers to have faith in the creator of universe and things will be according to his will.
___8. Ideology provides its believers an understanding to a set of shared attitudes, values, custom, norms, traits of
racial and social groups and beliefs system that characterize the institution.
___9. Ideology provides its believer a set of ideas that commands a strong commitment from many of its adherents and
significantly influences political beliefs and action.
___10. Ideology provides an account of existing order, usual in the form of a “World View” and a model of the desired
future. A vision of the good society.