PHILIPPINE

POLITICS AND
GOVERNANCE
 CROSS WORD PUZZLE
•Find the words that are related to
political science. Write as many
words as you can. Answer should be
written on a separate sheet of paper.
 OBJECTIVES:
1. identify the basic tenets of major political
ideologies (i.e., liberalism, conservatism,
socialism);
2. differentiate the political ; and
3. analyze how political ideologies impact on
the social and political life of Filipino.
 MEANING OF IDEOLOGY
•Ideology according to Heywood
(2007) refers to a system of
beliefs about how society should
function, behave, and operate.
•Ideology is a more or less coherent
set of ideas that provides a basis for
organized political action, whether
this is intended to preserve, modify
or overthrow the existing system of
power relationships.
 FUNCTIONS OF POLITICAL
IDEOLOGY
• (1) It offers an account of the existing order by examining
what works and what does not work, as well as other
various issues and problems that the state and the broader
society are confronted with.
• (2) It provides a model of a desired social order, a vision
of the Good Society.
• (3) It outlines how political change or the desired social
order can be achieved.
MAJOR POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES