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Concept of Political Development

This document discusses the concept of political development. It defines political development as the ability of a political system to make and carry out collective decisions while adapting to changes in the environment. Political development involves government institutions, traditional politics, economic institutions, and social institutions. It is an ongoing process that involves structural differentiation, the imperative of equality, and the political system's integrative, responsive, and adaptive capacity. Political development aims for mass participation, popular rule through universal laws, and recruitment based on merit rather than ascriptive factors. It also requires competence, professionalism, and effective implementation of public policy through a rational administrative system.

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Concept of Political Development

This document discusses the concept of political development. It defines political development as the ability of a political system to make and carry out collective decisions while adapting to changes in the environment. Political development involves government institutions, traditional politics, economic institutions, and social institutions. It is an ongoing process that involves structural differentiation, the imperative of equality, and the political system's integrative, responsive, and adaptive capacity. Political development aims for mass participation, popular rule through universal laws, and recruitment based on merit rather than ascriptive factors. It also requires competence, professionalism, and effective implementation of public policy through a rational administrative system.

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CONCEPT OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT in the political context can be confined to connote an increasing


ability to make and carry out collective decisions affecting the environment while
political development broadly denotes any way in which people relate to one another,
through:

A. Government Institutions -including GOCCs

B. Traditional Meaning of Politics - Political Accommodation, Padrino system,


Ningas kugon

C. Economic Institutions -- Micro and macro finances

D. Social Institutions -- Foreign and local investors, Public-Private-Partnership

Development as a Goal and Process

As a whole, political development is a continuous interaction among the


processes of modernization and the concepts of:

How to interact:

a. Structural differentiation
b. Imperative of equality
c. Integrative, responsive, adaptive capacity of political system

These 3 elements are interdependent and can be mutually supportive or conflictive


but they do not coordinate.

Political system should have integrative, responsive, adaptive to changes.

Differentiation implies diffusion and specialization of structures.

 The offices and agencies tend to have their district and limited functions and
there is an equivalent of division of labor within the realm of government
 It also involves the integration of complex structures and processes
 Thus, differentiation is not fragmentation and the isolation of the different
parts of the political system but specialization based on an ultimate sense of
integration

Popular Participation / Equality:


The subject of political development and does suggest mass participation and
popular involvement in political activities.

Participation may either be democratic or in a form totalitarian mobilization but


the consideration is that subject should become active citizens.

Popular Rule:

At least, the semblance of a popular rule is necessary.

It also means that laws should be of “UNIVERSALISTIC NATURE”, applicable to


all and more less impersonal in their operation.

Finally, it means that recruitment to political offices should reflect achievement of


performance and not ascriptive consideration of a traditional system.

Capacity refers the capacity of political systems which it can give output and the
extent to which it can affect the rest of the society and economy.

Competence and Professionalism:

Competence – putting the right person to the right position

It is also associated with governmental performance and the conditions that


affect performance.

It entails sheer magnitude, scope and the sale of and political governmental
performance making it like a welfare agency (qualitative and quantitative as to
measure the performance)

It also means effectiveness and efficiency in the execution of public policy.

There is a trend towards professionalization of government.

Professionalism speaks for code of ethics in the government as public official.


The purpose of ethics is to remind what is right to do.

Finally, it is related to rationality in administration and a secular orientation


towards policy.

The problem in the Philippines is the implementation of the law and ignorance of
the implementers.

The actions of the government are guided more by deliberations and


justifications that seek to relate ends and means in a systematic manner.

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