Rating Presidential Performance accdg to FVR
In today's issue of the Manila Bulletin, I was fortunate to have been quoted by former President Fidel Ramos in his article entitled "Real Performance and Results more than the SONA."
Ramos makes a compelling argument that a SONA is more about accountability than a presentation of the state of the nation. Indeed, a President will have to account for her performance and convince the nation that our country is going somewhere in the next few years.
The support of FVR towards the success of our book, So Help Us God, has been tremendous. Ramos (together with Cory Aquino) was present during our book launching two years ago at Club Filipino. He wrote the foreword of the book and most importantly, he donates copies of the book to schools, institutions, and offices here and abroad.
Here are some excerpts about what FVR said about assessing presidential performance:
Measuring performance and results
How can performance and results (or the absence of the same) be objectively measured? Indeed, there are all kinds of comparative statistics, trends and research findings readily available to our decision-makers and public managers as that they can strategically address and resolve our pressing, recurring problems. Let me suggest a readily available and practical approach, and that is SHUG. "So Help Us God" (SHUG) is a book about the 14 Philippine presidents, including PGMA, which has been in circulation since 2004 but, maybe, is not yet known to many of us. Fortunately, it is still available in our major bookstores.
This is one valuable reference on Philippine history, especially for those who want to learn more of the evolution of the state of our nation these past 100 years. SHUG was written by brothers J. Eduardo and Jonathan Malaya who utilized a unique approach — by comparing an incoming President’s commitments to the nation expressed in his/her inaugural address and the significant results of his/her administration.
Ed is a career foreign service officer with the rank of MinisterCounselor, who has served foreign tours of duty in the Philippine Consulates in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and in our Embassy in Brussels. Jonathan, on the other hand, is a professor of Public Speaking, English Literature, and Political Science in three Manila universities and serves as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Solicitor General. He was president of the UP Debate Society as well as writer for the Philippine Collegian. He likewise authored or edited several other books prior to SHUG.
By way of introduction, the authors wrote: "For much of the last hundred years, the Filipino people looked to a president to lead in facing the nation’s challenges and opportunities.... The starting point of this stewardship is Inaugural Day — an occasion invested with pomp and solemnity. This book aims to put readers into direct contact with the original words spoken at the inauguration of the fourteen Philippine presidents to date, well aware that many of these stirring words have been misconstrued, if not altogether lost to today’s generation. The authors hope to discern trends and continuities in our national leaders’ platforms and visions, examine their challenges and achievements, and with these as underlying threads, weave a concise history of the Philippine presidency. This book is thus three elements rolled into one — oratory, public policy, and history.
Ramos makes a compelling argument that a SONA is more about accountability than a presentation of the state of the nation. Indeed, a President will have to account for her performance and convince the nation that our country is going somewhere in the next few years.
The support of FVR towards the success of our book, So Help Us God, has been tremendous. Ramos (together with Cory Aquino) was present during our book launching two years ago at Club Filipino. He wrote the foreword of the book and most importantly, he donates copies of the book to schools, institutions, and offices here and abroad.
Here are some excerpts about what FVR said about assessing presidential performance:
Measuring performance and results
How can performance and results (or the absence of the same) be objectively measured? Indeed, there are all kinds of comparative statistics, trends and research findings readily available to our decision-makers and public managers as that they can strategically address and resolve our pressing, recurring problems. Let me suggest a readily available and practical approach, and that is SHUG. "So Help Us God" (SHUG) is a book about the 14 Philippine presidents, including PGMA, which has been in circulation since 2004 but, maybe, is not yet known to many of us. Fortunately, it is still available in our major bookstores.
This is one valuable reference on Philippine history, especially for those who want to learn more of the evolution of the state of our nation these past 100 years. SHUG was written by brothers J. Eduardo and Jonathan Malaya who utilized a unique approach — by comparing an incoming President’s commitments to the nation expressed in his/her inaugural address and the significant results of his/her administration.
Ed is a career foreign service officer with the rank of MinisterCounselor, who has served foreign tours of duty in the Philippine Consulates in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and in our Embassy in Brussels. Jonathan, on the other hand, is a professor of Public Speaking, English Literature, and Political Science in three Manila universities and serves as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Solicitor General. He was president of the UP Debate Society as well as writer for the Philippine Collegian. He likewise authored or edited several other books prior to SHUG.
By way of introduction, the authors wrote: "For much of the last hundred years, the Filipino people looked to a president to lead in facing the nation’s challenges and opportunities.... The starting point of this stewardship is Inaugural Day — an occasion invested with pomp and solemnity. This book aims to put readers into direct contact with the original words spoken at the inauguration of the fourteen Philippine presidents to date, well aware that many of these stirring words have been misconstrued, if not altogether lost to today’s generation. The authors hope to discern trends and continuities in our national leaders’ platforms and visions, examine their challenges and achievements, and with these as underlying threads, weave a concise history of the Philippine presidency. This book is thus three elements rolled into one — oratory, public policy, and history.
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