6. “I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.” JOSEPH ESTRADA
7. “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.” OSCAR AMERINGER
8. SCOPE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Theory-entire body of doctrines relating to the origin, form, behavior and purposes of the state. Public Administration-methods and techniques used in actual management of state affairs. Public Law-limitations upon government authority.
9. FUNCTION AND IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE “The function of political science is to discover the principles that should be adhered to in public affairs that eventually would serve as a model that can be applied to matters of urgent concern to public officials and to private citizens.”
10. GOALS IN THE STUDY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Education for citizenship - the primary objective of the political science curriculum is to equip students to discharge the obligations of democratic citizenship
11. GOALS IN THE STUDY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Essential parts of liberal education - Intelligent, responsible citizenship can save democracy; ignorance and negligence can lose it
15. ELEMENTS OF A STATE Territory - demarcated area that rightly belongs to the population
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18. ELEMENTS OF A STATE Sovereignty - May be defined as the supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its will from the people within its jurisdiction and corollary to have freedom from foreign control.
19. “sovereignty” Internal – power of the state to rule within its territory External – the freedom of the state to carry out its activities without subjection to or control by other states.
20. ORIGIN OF STATES Divine right theory-the state is of divine creation and the ruler is ordained by God to govern the people. Necessity or force theory-states must have been created through force by some great warriors.
21. ORIGIN OF STATES 3. Paternalistic theory-under the authority of the father or mother.(stages., next slide) 4. Social contract theory-theory justifies the right of the people to revolt against bad ruler.
23. STATE DISTINGUISHED FROM NATION “The state is a political concept while a nation is an ethnic concept.”
24. STATE DISTINGUISHED FROM NATION “ A state is not subject to external control while a nation may or may not be independent of external control.”
25. STATE DISTINGUISHED FROM NATION “ A single state may consist of one or more nations or people and conversely, a single nation may be made up of several states.”
26. STATE DISTINGUISHED FROM GOVERNMENT “…they are usually regarded as identical. As ordinarily, the acts of the government are the acts of the state.”
27. STATE DISTINGUISHED FROM GOVERNMENT “A state cannot exist without a government, but it is possible to have a government without a state.”
30. there is no standard for the classification of governments
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32. CLASSIFICATIONS OF MONARCHY a. Absolute monarchy- which the ruler rules by divine right. b. Limited monarchy- which the ruler rules in accordance with the constitution.
33. CLASSIFICATIONS OF DEMOCRACY a. Pure democracy-through people in a mass meeting. b. Indirect democracy-select body of persons chosen by the people to act as their representatives.
34. AS TO EXTENT OF POWERS EXERCISED BY THE CENTRAL OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Unitary - control of national and local affairs is exercised by the central or national government Federal –powers of the government are divided between to sets of organs, one of the national and the other for local affairs
35. AS TO THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE AND THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT Parliamentary – legislative and executive bodies are fused together Presidential – the executive is constitutionally independent of the legislature
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