Globalization, Nationalism and Public Administration

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GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

• By Leonor Magtolis Briones

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GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE
Topic Outline

1. Mainstream Concepts
2. Emerging Concepts

1. Economy
2. Political Institutions and Governance
3. Social Institutions and Culture
4. Science and Technology

Human Development
I. Concepts of Globalization
Challenges to the theory and practice of public
administration
II. Challenges and opportunities of Globalization
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GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE
Topic Outline

1. Nationalism Two Views
2. Towards New Nationalism
3. The Role of Civil Society

1. Theories of Public Administration
2. The Practices of Public Administration

III. New Nationalism
IV. Challenges to the theory and practice of
public administration
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GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

• Objectives
• By the end of the session, we will be able to
  understand Globalization
• To comprehend what are the factors that underlie
  Globalization
• To behold the challenges and opportunities that
  bring about by Globalization
• To know what it means of new nationalism and
  how it aroused amidst Globalization
• To know the role of public administration to the
  emergence Globalization.

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Globalization
Concepts of Globalization

• it is the process of interaction and integration
  among the people, companies and governments of
  different nations.
• http//www.globalization101.org/What
  _is_Globalization.html

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Concepts of Globalization

• A. Mainstream Concepts

• view of globalization as primarily economic,
  particularly trade and business phenomenon.

B. Emerging Concepts

• Macroeconomic

• Microeconomic

• Brings jobless growth, social and gender
  inequality, crass global cultural commercialism
  and environmental despoliation. Ofreneo

• Globalization has meant a retreat in the role of
  state as market force and market actors determine
  the course of growth. Parr

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Concepts of Globalization

• A.1 Characteristics of Globalization

• Global firms today are both small and large, and
  nimble.

• Changes in the nature of investment beyond simple
  equity purchases.

• Change in location of international production.

• Changes in the nature of production.

• Changes in International Governance.

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Concepts of Globalization

• International movements, actions and initiatives
  on democracy, human rights, environmental and
  social development as part of globalization.

• B. Emerging Concepts

• International movements, actions and initiatives
  on democracy, human rights, environmental and
  social development as part of globalization.

The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization

• Problems of social development as part of
  globalization

• NGOs, POs, and Academic and Research
  institutions are active players in the process of
  globalization.

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization

• A. Economy

B. Political Institutions and Governance
C. Social Institutions and Culture
D. Science and Technology
Human Development
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization

• A. Economy

• Trade Liberalization

• Reforms in the financial sector

• Privatization

• Fiscal and Monetary Policy measures

• Other Globalization-friendly economic policies

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
A. Economy
B. Political Institutions and Governance

• A.1 GATT/WTO and APEC

• GATT/WTO General Agreement on Tariff and
  Trade/World Trade Organization

• APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

A.2 Perspectives on Globalization

• Answer to the challenge of global survival

• Goal and Opportunity

• Globalization, merely another name for
  imperialism in the third millennium.

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
B. Political Institutions and Governance
B.1 Levels of Governance

• Global Governance

• Regional Governance

• National Governance

B.2 The Role of State

• Minimalist Government

B.3 Whither Public Sector and Private Sector?
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
B. Political Institutions and Governance
C. Social Institutions and Culture
B.3 Public Finance
B.4 Administrative Reforms
B.5 Globalization of Corruption
B.6 The Role of Civil Society
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
C. Social Institutions and Culture
D. Science and Technology
C.1 Social Disintegration
Violence against women and children
Drug-related crimes

• Criminality

• Cult

Mass suicide
C.2Poverty
C.3Employment

• Contractualization and Casualization

C.4 Going back to roots and Identity

• Hope

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization
D. Science and Technology
D.1 Keeping Abreast
The Response to GlobalizationA New Nationalism
D.2 Moral and Philosophical Questions
The Bottom Line
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The Response to GlobalizationA New Nationalism
Nationalism

• is a political ideology that involves a strong
  identification of a group of individuals with a
  political entity defined in national terms.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na
  tionalism

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The Response to GlobalizationA New Nationalism

• A. Nationalism Two Views

• One, nationalism is incompatible with
  globalization.

Challenges to Philippine Public Administration

• Two, globalization is already here and is a fact
  of life.

B. Towards New Nationalism
C. The role of civil society
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Challenges to Philippine Public Administration

• A. Theories of Public Administration

A.1 Redefining the Borders of Public
Administration in a borderless, Globalizing World
A.2 Re-establishing the Locus and Focus of Public
Administration
A.3 Clarifying Concepts on the Role of State, the
Private Sector and Civil Society
A.4 Reviewing Theories of Bureaucracy
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Challenges to Philippine Public Administration
GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

• B. The Practice of Public Administration

B.1 Socioeconomic Transformation
B.2 Governance
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B.3 Decentralization
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