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• Institution


  Composed of formal rules, informal norms, or agreed upon understanding that constraint and prescribe political actors' behavior and interaction with one another
• Main function of institutions


  Keep society in order and implement specific tasks assigned to them
• Examples of institutions

  • Educational
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Social
• Characteristics of an institution


  • A cluster of social usage
  • Relative degree of permanence
  • Well known and defines objectives
  • Resistant to social changes due to well solidified beliefs
  • Transmitter of Social Heritage
• State institutions


  Institutions that have state functions and are established to govern the state including all other agencies, bureaus and offices
• State institutions


  • 3 Branches of the Government
  • Office of the President
  • Office of the Vice-President
  • Congress of the Philippines (Senate, House of Representatives)
  • Supreme Court of the Philippines
  • Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)
  • National Statistics Office (NSO) / Philippine Statistics Office (PSA)
  • Tariff Commission
  • National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)
  • National Security Council (NSC)
  • Office of the Press Secretary (OPS)
  • Philippine News Agency (PNA)
  • Philippine Anti-Graft Commission
  • Constitutional Commissions (CHR, COA, COMELEC, CSC)
  • Local Government Units
  • National Government Agencies (DILG, DND, DAR, DA, DOH, DepEd, etc.)
  • Government owned or controlled corporations (GSIS, NFA, PHIC, SSS, PAG-IBIG, etc.)
• Non-state actors


  A group of people or organization that participates in international affairs and relations but is not affiliated with any state or nation
• Examples of non-state institutions

  • Banks
  • Corporations
  • Trade Unions
  • Cooperatives
  • Development Agencies
  • Civil Organizations
  • Transnational Advocacy Groups
• Bank


  A financial institution licensed to provide several types of financial services to different costumers
• Corporation


  Owned by a group of people but has a separate legal identity, offers stocks and bonds to generate capital for growth
• Trade Union


  An organization composed of workers related or employees from different fields, which aims to represent the interests and rights of its members
• Cooperative


  Made up of people with common interest who agreed to work together for easy, safe, and affordable access to commodities, loans, and other services
• Development Agencies


  Agencies that promote progress by engaging in projects, policymaking, and dialogue, providing financial assistance (e.g. JICA, CIDA, USAID, ADB)
• Civil Organizations


  Organizations created to expose the conditions of the marginalized sector of the society by using mass media as its platform to raise critical issues to the government
• Transnational Advocacy Group


  A group that influences the government to take action on matters commonly neglected, promoting and advocating progress and development related to particular issues of the society