Reaction Paper: Philippine Bureaucratic Capacity for Effective Government and Development by Prof. Hilton J. Aguja

This paper testamenting focus on the validity of the deed of conveyance (of the look for paper) that economic growth and maturation lies on how strong their suppose is and their bureaucratic capacity for effective governance. I allot it as valid. In fact, when we look for at it, the strength of the state allow in any case depend with the bureaucratic capacity that a concomitant governing has. For instance, when the composition of government moorages is make full with incapable or calorie-free polite servants, scourtually the facade of the government as a whole will non be good to look at. Moreover, it was distinctly defined in the research paper on how bureaucratism should be.This refers to the criteria to waste an ideal type of bureaucratism. The first step is that bureaucracy should be a clearly defined division of repel. There moldiness(prenominal) be a demarcation track in put to deathing different tasks of the government. In the national government, the task of legislating laws moldiness be isolated merely in the legislative body, the task of executing the laws essential(prenominal) be exclusively given to the executive body concomitant with the bureaucratic means and the task of adjudicating or interpreting the laws must be handled only by the juridical body.However, it is important to take note that albeit the mankind of the division of labor, each polite servants be to different tasks must value the gluiness in achieving the goal of the government as a whole. Second quantity focuses on the im face-to-face authority social system. It means that the structure of government positions must be qualify not on the pedestal of individualized choice nevertheless on the basis of how positions are defined and structured by the existing laws that a particular state have.The third bingle talks round the existence of the power structure of offices. Because of the division of labor and impersonal authority structure, their must be an arrangement of offices in a top-to-bottom scheme. The hierarchy of offices is quiet important because it shows the outlook of authority- who is much powerful and who is much authorized in a particular task in respect to the provisions provided. Dependence on formal rules is the fourth criterion.Civil servants perform their specific task not because of the dictates of otherwise individuals inside or outside the marginal of the government but because of the rules prescribed by the existing laws. Next criterion is the traffic based on merit. The employment of civil servants must be in margin with the commandment of meritocracy. Employees must employ applier in a specific occupancy on the basis of merits, knowledge in the job that the appli female genital organt applied for and the applicants capability to perform that particular job. According to Presidential Decree zero(prenominal) 07 (supra. ), graduation with honors earned under the war-ridden atmosphere of the aca demic community is as good as a straits mark in a agonistical examination to determine merit and chastity for public employment. The rationale behind this principle is to make sure that the government is filled with the best talents and are capable in doing their specific tasks effectively and efficiently. The sixth criterion is the availability of a career. It means that careers in government must be turn out(a) or available for applicants to the great accomplishment as possible.Availability of positions or careers in government must be open to everyone who aspires to, as long as they train in the requirements provided. It is under the premise that the more applicants, the grater chance of having the or so qualified or the best among the bests for a particular position. lucid separation of members organizational and personal lives is the function criterion. There must be a demarcation line between the interests as civil servants and the personal interests.Because civil s ervants must imply to the constituents that public office is unfeignedly for public trust. Now is the high-time to ask ourselves what is the bureaucracy then in the Philippine setup? I concede in the claim, and I reckon it is valid, that when we draw the line of the bureaucratic capacity that the Philippines have vis-a-vis the feasibleness of the state in performing its functionality in the economic, political and administrative sphere, we really cant draw the line, or even if we can, not a straight one for sure.Our bureaucracy is clearly defined not with the ideal criteria of bureaucracy but with the compound mentality or experiences (in the past) and the circumstances i. e low payment for civil servants and assigning based on patrimonialism (in the present). In candor to the government we have, especially the former memorial tablet of P. GMA, the ideal bureaucracy of government thus far exist however the unwanted bureaucracy outweighed it.In the level of appointment, in v iew quo, we appoint or employ individuals not on his/her merits or capability but usually on the basis of personal attitude towards the applicant, personal considerations, personal connections, favors and what not. not to mention that because of colonial influences that results to colonial mentality, most of the politicians, if not all, practice the political socialisation of corruption. Because of that, it sends a message that public office is not really for public trust but for clannish gain.Moreover, civil servants real low payment compared to civil servants in other East Asian countries and diddly-shit in private institutions. Thats the land why more and more slew opted to work outside the Philippine trammel or they opted to work in private institutions. I dont think that the employment based on patrimonialism, wrong behaviour of civil servants that eventually will result to mistrust, the low payment for civil servants and what not makes the economy of the country snap off and fully developed. Their must be a shift of paradigm and we must puzzle it now.