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Is There a Philippine Public Administration

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In Onofre Corpuz's esssay on "Is there a Philippine Public Administration", he negatively stated that there is a Philippine public administration by repeatedly stating, "It's all very Filipino". He even stated that "...the existing public administration is faithfully Filipino.". I must agree with his statement because indeed, a Philippine public administration exists, I believe in terms of structure. I would like to quote Alex Brillantes, Jr. and Maricel Fernandez on their statement. "Yes we have basic public administration structures and processes. We have an executive branch with the bureaucracy at its core. We have a Philippine legislature. We have a Philippine judiciary. We have Philippine electoral processes and procedures. We have …show more content…

In terms of politics, it was only the pueblo elites, as what Corpuz calls them, who had the opportunity to grab hold of positions such as gobernadorcillos. This reflected the traditional public administration that was present during the Spanish era. But they were just mere symbols of the friars during that time, leading them to another kind of politics in fiesta. Local principlias contested each other for personal glory by being the hermano mayor. Such post was only limited to the pueblo elites and only cared for their personal gains and not for the general welfare of the people. Corpuz stated that this "pueblo elites became the basis of Philippine politics into the American colonial period." I must disagree with him in that in some parts. Why? Because such system was not only adapted during the American period because such practices are translated into the Philippine public administration itself. It may be seen that majority of the people who actually participate every election are those who belong to the upper strata of the society. Their economic wealth gives them a political leverage. There's nothing wrong with this, unless they use their money and "connections" to advance their self interest in ways deemed unfair for the other parties. University of the Philippines economist Raul Fabella, commenting on the

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