Misusing Democracy to Execute Corruption

Assumption University

Freedom is a broad term were many political leaders around the world are using the ideology of freedom in a different context.  Misleading the usage of such term may spoil the political and organizational setup of any country. As of today many countries such as Philippines is practically using the full democratic form of government but as you look at the whole of Asia, Philippines is one of the economies that is struggling to sustain its GDP.  So where is democracy now? Do you think that freedom and democracy is not congruent to the Filipino culture or the present government is just misusing it to curtail their personal interest towards the country?  

To some Filipino citizens, freedom is the food in the table or the financial capacity to finance any hospital bill that will occur anytime to a person.  Where is democracy during the rally of the Kidapawan farmers? Things are becoming murky when it comes to the true definition of freedom now a days.  As we open our minds outside the realm of the definition of freedom we can gradually integrate concepts and ideologies from other political and philosophical theories from the past.  As we all know that civilization change its nature and behavior so as to the political and sociological nature of public management.  

Assumption University

New Synthesis of Public Administration (LSE)

Michael Nacht UC Berkeley

Public management imposing theoretical ideologies must consider the evolution of the actual present civilization.  The faculty of political science must consider the combination of theories from the past and integrate that of today’s actual public management.  Many countries who are experiencing positive satisfaction rate of its people are not following the absolute definition of democracy like US.  Take for example the country Switzerland and its public medical program to its citizens are far more lucrative compared to other countries. Likewise, the free education program of Germany is an advantage not only to the citizens of Germany but its generous program reaches to the less fortunate countries with lucrative human resource potentials.  All of the above is an example of using a combination of public management technique with higher positive output.  For countries like the Philippines and other emerging countries, is it high time to execute a constitutional change to re-organize and calibrate the public administrative system?

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