Advantages Of Presidential Unitary Government

The Philippine Presidential-Unitary government: An evaluation
In light of the increasing clamor for change under the new president, there have been arising discussions regarding the potentiality of changing the present constitution in order to make the shift from unitary to a federal system. Previous attempts of changing the constitution have been made during the administrations of Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo. This time, it has again taken the front line of debates between its proponents and detractors. The newly elected Chief Executive during his first State of the Nation Address expressed his preference of creating a Philippine federal system with an elected president. Comparing the Philippines with other countries that have similar characteristics

Comparison of the presidential and parliamentary form and its applicability in the current political arena of the country, the advantages and disadvantages of federalization, and the proposed improvement of the electoral and party system, is the focus of the student. Exploring the possibility of changing the constitution to make way for the establishment of a federal government is deemed to be unlikely by a lot of analysts because of the different repercussions and the cost that it will take to make the change. The adaptability of federalism with the parliamentary structure is also evident and therefore also leads to the question of the stability of the presidential form that is currently being used by the country. The student believes that shifting to a new form of government immediately without overseeing the end may entail chaos on a grand scale and proposes to retain the existing form of government, at the same time promoting reforms within the electoral and party system to further assuage problems and to establish better

The same as the Philippines, Nepal has been a unitary country for many centuries; therefore its decision to shift to federalism entails many adjustments not only on the side of the people involved in the government but also among the entirety of the population. This example negates the romanticized notion of federalism in the minds of the common men as an instant solution to the problems of a socio-cultural diverse country. Counterarguments regarding the perceived advantages of federalism came from studies that reveal the reality that it may actually “lead to the strengthening, rather than the weakening, of ethnic divisions” (Clark, Golder, & Golder, 2013). Emphasizing the reality that Philippines is archipelagic in form; detractors believe that the competition among the proposed states will only exacerbate the already existing regionalism that may risk the sense of unity in the country. Another reason for those who are not in favor of the shift is that, when the states - which in this case are proposed to be the same as the existing regions - are created, it will expose the stark differences among them and will cause more conflicts like increased migration to richer states, the questions regarding the distribution of revenue, and greater uneven