K O K O L O G Y

THE GAME OF SELF-DISCOVERY

A series of psychological games

designed to reveal your hidden
attitudes about sex, family, love, work
and more.
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1. Say the first thing that pops into your head.

2. Play with other people if you can.
3. Don’t try to predict the answers.
4. Be honest with yourself.
5. Be prepared.
6. Don’t read ahead.
7. Watch people’s reactions (including your own).
8. Keep an open mind.
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1 SPREADING YOUR WINGS

2 UNDER A CLEAR BLUE SKY

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SPREADING YOUR WINGS

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“This is gonna be fun. I can ’t wait.”

“I don’t know if I can go through with this. ”

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“Wow. Would you look at this view. ”

“Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.”

“I want my mommy!”
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“Not bad for a beginner. Don ’t worry, you’ll get better

with practice!”

“Oh, I’m really sorry, I left the lens cap on the

camera. Do you want to go again? ”

“Well, I guess that about does it. Now, will that be

cash, check, or charge?”
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POLITICS AND
GOVERNANCE
Jundelle Marie S. Bagioen, LPT
jmbagioen@gmail.com
Understanding POLITICS
• Definition of Politics
• Essentials of Politics
• Approaches to the study of Politics
• Images of Politics
• Men and Politics
• Power in Politics
• Sources of Power
• The ISMs of Politics
• The Laws and Logic of Politics
What is Politics?
• Many people imagine that studying politics is just
studying government. Government is important, but
Politics is much more than this.

• Politics is a diverse, sprawling and dynamic discipline,

which is not defined by a particular method or
approach, but by a concern with themes of human
community, power, conflict, and change.
What is Politics?
• The study of politics is one of the oldest
academic disciplines. In ancient Greece political
philosophers studied the uses of power. They
also concerned themselves with creating a good
society and balancing the pursuit of power with
justice and order.
 What is Politics?

Herodotus Plato Aristotle Thucydides

domestic comparative
political international
politics and politics
policy studies philosophy politics
 EXERCISE

POWER

PURPOSES PRACTICES
AUTHORITY POLITICS RULES

INFLUENCE

ACQUISITION
 ESSENTIALS OF Politics?
P ower P rocess P eople P urpose
O rganization O pportunity O on line O pinion disk
L eadership L aws L iberty L istening
I nfluence I mpact I nventory I nnovativeness
T imelines T eam T raining T rustworthiness
I ssues I ntelligence I ntegration I ntegrity
C ommunication C osts C reativity C harisma
S ecurity S trategy S tyle S pace
Approaches to the study of Politics

Traditional Historical development of government

historical structure and institutions

Informal aspect of politics (how

Scientific individuals behave within political
institutions and how it affects to policy
behaviorist making)

GENERAL Identify all the critical structures and

processes of society, explain the
THEORY interrelationships
Approaches to the study of Politics

Structural Specifies the activities of a viable political

system and explains how these functions
functional must be performed

Politics can be depicted by the interaction

System between the societal environment and an
abstract political system
APPROACH
INPUTs Political system outputs

feedback
Approaches to the study of Politics

Political Relationship between the

government and economics
economy
10 IMAGES of Politics?
Board-room Decision making by business elites and
professionals, but with important public
consequences

Rule making and adjudications by bureaucrats,

bureaucratic with inputs from clients and professionals

Policy making by legislators, constrained by

congress various constituencies
10 IMAGES of Politics?
Process dominated by presidents, governors,
Chief executive mayors and their advisers

Court orders and decisions of prosecutors,

Court room judges and or justices in response interest
groups

multimedia Galvanization of public opinion

10 IMAGES of Politics?

Decisions are made by leaders and members of

Faith based religious groups and have political implications

Game of the Involves the calculated decisions of the military

and police generals and their subordinates to
generals effect preferences in the political arena
10 IMAGES of Politics?
High profile socio-political engagement and
Civil society proactive lobbying of voluntary groups such as
NGOs, Professional Orgs, etc.

involves factors and players that are less

prominently mentioned, less openly
X men named, less publicly involved but
actively engaged in fixing and managing
self0serving political decisions
What is POWER?

- Ability or the right to do something, the ability to

exercise authority over others

- Hierarchy of control of the stronger over the

weaker
POWER:5 Bases of Power
1. Expert Power – leader possesses some special knowledge or
expertise
2. Referent Power – based on follower’s liking, admiring with the
leader
3. Reward Power – based on leader’s capacity to mediate rewards
for the follower
4. Legitimate Power – based on followers perception that the
leader has the legitimate right to exercise influence over him
5. Coercive Power – based on the follower’s fear that the
noncompliance with the leader’s wises will lead to
punishment
 SOURCES OF POWER

sanctions
Enforcement of obedience used by rulers against P
their subjects to supplement voluntary acceptance
O
Material resources W
Control over property & resources E
Intangible factors
R
Psychological and ideological factors
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Authority
Intensity of the ruler’s authority over the subjects
P
O Human resources
W Number of persons who obey him
E
R Skills and knowledge

Abilities of the people under him or around him

 Isms of Politics
“WHAT IS IDEAL IS GOOD, “POWER MAKES RIGHT,
WHAT IS GOOD IS IDEAL” MIGHT IS RIGHT”

IDEALISM REALISM

RATIONALISM EXTREMISM

“THE FORCE OF REASON

“THE REALITY TODAY IS THE
OVER THE REASON OF
REALITY FOREVER”
FORCE”