1a Three Folding Image Serote
1a Three Folding Image Serote
1a Three Folding Image Serote
OF SOCIETY:
By:
ERNESTO M. SEROTE
Professor and Director of Training
School of Urban and Regional Planning
University of the Philippines
THE THREE-FOLDING IMAGE OF SOCIETY
• Knowledge
• Clarity & Coherence
of Values CIVIL SOCIETY STATE • Democratic Governance
• Public Interest (Culture) (Polity) • Securing Justice & Equity
• Job security
• Environment-friendly production
Business – CSO Interface
• Nationalist economics
State –Business – CSO Interface
• Authority interpretation
- authority to legislate is unique to the
State derived from sovereignty;
reduces individual freedom
State –Business – CSO Interface
• Allocation interpretation
- how much of society’s resources
should be left to public consumption
and investment; how much should be
left to private choice
State–Business–CSO Interface
• Distribution interpretation
- the amount of resource transfers to
private sectors and individuals and
the manner of transferring it
State–Business–CSO Interface
• Production interpretation
- how much of the goods and services
provided by government should also
be produced by government itself?
State–Business–CSO Interface
• Ownership problem
- how much of the means of
production should be owned by
government?
State–Business–CSO Interface
• Bureaucracy interpretation
- how much of the total workforce
should be employed in government?