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Philippine Politics and Governance

 MOST ESSENTIAL
LEARNING COMPETENCIES

 Explain the concept and importance of

politics.
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Take time to share their set up at home.
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Give your own meaning to Politics,
Rationality, Decision-making, Policy
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 How do you find the activity?

 What are your thoughts about the activity?
 How does the activity possibly relate to our next
lesson?
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 Politics – a human activity of governing
 Art – politics is an art of designing creative management
 Science – refers to the systematic approach towards politics.
 Rationality – the human’s capacity to choose and act for oneself
 Politics as an art

 Politics is creative
 Politics is multi-dimensional
 Politics is evolving
 Politics is being refined
 Politics as Science
 Political Science – an approach to describe, analyze and explain
political phenomena
 Political Philosophy – refers to the connection of politics to the
human philosophical activities; considered as the backbone of
political science
 Political Economy – it is the scientific merger of politics and
economics
 Governance
 An art of policy-making in order to properly manage a
political unit
 Setting control and direction towards a desired status
 Steering and leading a group towards its welfare
 Assumption of leadership and authority over a society for its
common good
 Government
 An entity exercising governance
 An institution in-charge of implementing rules and
regulations set in order to achieve social order
 An agency that manages that formulates policies and
execute them
 An instrument wherein command and control are
manifested
 Relationship of Politics, Governance
and Government
 Politics, a science and art is the process by which
governance is done.
 Governance is where the action of managing,
policy-making and implementation of policies occur.
 Government is the instrumentality by which
governance takes place.