Meeting Notes/Lesson

• Actions should be judged (right/wrong) based on their consequences

  Consequentialism
• Public Administration (take note only)

  Government in action- positive

  Government inaction- negative
• What is the output of decisions made by public officers?

  Policy/Law
• According to Woodrow Wilson, the idea of separation is ______

  • impossible in real life
  • illusion
• Who implements the Constitution?

  Congress
• What are the three criticisms of PA?

  1. Powerful Central Authority
  2. Administrative Discretion
  3. Moral Justice
• In the Evolution of PA, which phase focused on privatization?

  New Public Management (NPM)
• A system in which people gave kings and lords money and worked in exchange for protection

  Feudalism
• The view that morality is somehow dependent upon God and that moral obligation consists in obedience to God's commands.

  ex: The monarch's authority comes directly from God

  Divine Theory
• True or False

  Some teachings of the church may contradict the needs of the state

  True

  exp: that is why we have the separation of church and state
• In the evolution of PA, which phase asserts that development can be administered?

  Development Administration
• In the evolution of PA, which phase asserts social equity?

  New Public Administration
• "Social Equity" is defined in which case?

  Calalang vs. Williams

  Social justice is "neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy," but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the State so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated. 
• Every property owned by the state is owned by the people

  Communism

  exp: Everyone shares resources equally, and there is no private property; eliminate social equality
• Lawless/absence of obedience


  Anarchy

  exp: Anarchy is a system where there's no formal government or authority. People are free to do what they want without interference from a central power
• Follows the moral code regardless of the result (good/bad)

  Kantianism