How policies are being made in Philippines?
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1. Scholars have developed various public policymaking models over the years in an attempt toexplicate the process and to teach students andpractitioners how to make public policy. Some scholarsstudy the policy process generally and try to develop aknowledge base that can be applied across policydomains.The following are some of the models of policy making. Theseare not the only theories/models.
2. Policy is a product, authoritatively determined,implemented and evaluated by the government institutions:Congress, presidency, other elective officials and thebureaucracies both local and national. In this model, a policy does not become a public policyuntil it is legitimized by government entity concerned.Government policies provide legal powers that demandobligations from and command loyalty of the citizens. This typeof policy has its concomitant punitive components. The structure of the various government institutionscontribute to the context of public policy. The Constitutionserves as the highest kind of policy to which all other policiesmust subscribe. Laws passed by Congress, executive orders andjudicial decisions come second in terms of relevance andpriority.
3. The relationship among these politicaland administrative institutions of governmentdetermine to a large extent the content ofpublic policy. This also clearly describes andvisualizes how the doctrine of separation ofpowers operates as well as the politics-administration dichotomy.