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LEVEL OF

POLITICS

LEVEL OF POLITICS

• Professor Emmete S. Redford, there are three levels of policies based on the scope of participation normally characteristic of each and, to a lesser extent, the kind of issue involved:

Micro politics

Subsystem Politics

Macro politics

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LEVELS OF POLITICS• Micropolitics

– Efforts by individuals, companies, and communities to secure action for themselves– Private legislation – directed to only a single person, company, or governmental unit


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Levels of Politics (cont.)• Subsystems Politics

– “Iron triangles” – A pattern of symbiotic relationships between congressional committees, agencies, and interest groups that is resistant to wider participation

– “Issue Networks” – Participants constantly move in and out of the network, making a cloudlike or amorphous network

– “Policy Communities” – Broader and more open than iron triangles, but under more identifiable control than issue networks

Policy Matter

Congressional Committees

Interest

Groups

Agency


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• Macropolitics– Characterized by wide interest and

participation from regular citizens and elites

– Central participants include the president (a distinctive characteristic of macropolitics), congressional leaders, executive departments, the media, and interest groups

– More actors are involved, which changes the substance of the policy decision

Davao City Government

"Local Government Code of 1991".

• …..State shall enjoy genuine and meaningful local autonomy to enable them to attain their fullest….

• …. State to ensure the accountability of local government units …..

• … local government units, non-governmental and people's organizations…..implemented in their respective jurisdictions…..

• CHAPTER 3. - LOCAL LEGISLATION

SEC. 48. Local Legislative Power. -

Local legislative power shall be exercised by the• sangguniang panlalawigan for the province;• sangguniang panlungsod for the city;• sangguniang bayan for the municipality; and• sangguniang barangay for the barangay.

Vice Mayor Rody Duterte

Chapter 3.Sec 49 states that the Vice mayor shall be the presiding officer of the Sanguniang Panglungsod

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