POLITICAL SCIENCE Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thrice, Total Quality Management, International Monetary Fund
26 Jul 2021
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Philippine bureaucracy: overview of western influences, political and historical contexts, challenges. The civil service commission: history, basic qualifications for civil service, qualifications based on special cases, officials. Heywood (2007) defined it as the administrative machinery of the state, although the term is highly contested. : functions carry out administration, offer policy advice articulate and aggregate interests, maintain political stability. Politics-administration dichotomy reinforced political neutrality and career system of the civil service. Datu = practices three branches of government. Lack of departments such as public finance, basic for civil relations (existence of barter economy) : spanish era. Built a centralized form of gov"t (barrio, pueblo, cabildos, and provincias) Established a system of public revenue and expenditures managed by the bureaucrats. Bureaucracy: became a social elite and political aristocracy. Obtainment of position: by purchase (offices are sold to the highest bidder for the royal treasury) Land tenure system (encomiendas), monastic corporations, system of collection of public revenues.
