Essay About Philippine Bureaucracy

Collaborative Paper on PH Bureaucracy

ISSUES CONCERNING THE PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY THAT IMPACT ON NATIONAL SECURITY.

In 2010, the Philippines ranked third among the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia in a survey conducted by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. This can be attributed to a number of cultural, socio-political, and empirical factors present in the Philippine bureaucratic setting. Similarly, this inefficiency of the Philippine bureaucracy to deliver its mandate resulted to a number of problems that set the direction for economic development, national security, nation building as a whole.
While there are a number of problems pertaining to Philippine bureaucracy per se, corruption, red tape system, and patronage politics are the three major issues or problems that have critical implications in the national security administration. It is important to note that these issues are not entirely independent from each other.
One major challenge facing security sector transformation and governance in the

The weakness of civilian bureaucracy makes it vulnerable to the influence of the military (Banlaoi, 2009). Corruption turns into a self-fulfilling prophesy as it continues a cycle of government inefficiency and the devastating effects of this on a nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Corruption has apparent destabilizing effects for nations and their security. The impact is manifold and includes, for example: “drug trafficking and arms proliferation is facilitated by systematic corruption, the presence of organized criminals and terrorists, poor governance, lack of territorial control and state failure, all of which are associated with instability” (The Economist,