Graft and corruption continuously challenges social scientists as a phenomenon that seems invincible although proven to plague societies since government, as a social institution, was invented. It needs to be researched on and the results taught to future citizens. The task is daunting but also very challenging, indeed, to resist; thus, this research was conducted to confirm what the determinants of political corruption are and design a syllabus for teaching. The analysis yielded the following factors as related to political corruption. The (1) economic determinants were: level of development, economic growth, income, economic freedom, globalization, resources, trade openness and foreign direct investment; (2) political development were: federal form, democracy, press freedom, legal system, political participation, political competition and political stability; (3) social determinants: history, education, ethnicity and religion; and, (4) organizational determinants: democratic institutions, decentralization and government expenditure. Using the above as conceptual framework, a syllabus for teaching was designed. Hopefully, schools will adopt this book for political pedagogy.

"Voluntourism" is coined from the merger of volunteerism and tourism, which is gaining global prominence. MIRATECH Korea has adopted the concept in its implementation of the company's corporate social responsibility through social entrepreneurship. The social enterprise is called "Korean VolunTourists Programs which is embedded in the International Volunteerism Vision Association (IVVA), based in Ligao City, Philippines. This book was written from the research report on MIRATECH Korea's implementation of corporate social responsibility through social entrepreneurship employing international voluntourism as an innovative approach. It is considered useful to students, professors and practitioners in business administration, public administration and collaborative governance. Both members of the business community and civil society organizations will learn from this book on how social entrepreneurship may be managed.

Climate change has caused weather changes resulting in disasters in most countries like the Philippines. The Province of Albay has experienced devastating typhoons, volcano eruption and tsunami threats due to earthquakes. Thus, the local government has formed a policy network on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management (CCA-DRRM). The policy network may be analyzed in the contexts of structure, process and outcomes. This book focuses on the policy network development process, which is composed of: network formation, institutionalization, capability building, policy making, policy implementation and sustaining the network. It shows why the Province of Albay in the Philippines was declared a "Global Local Government Unit (LGU) model for Climate Change Adaptation" by the UN-ISDR and the World Bank in 2008.Generalization on collaborative governance through policy network in Albay, Philippines reveals the unique and exemplary experiences of the province thereby providing basis for the identification of good practices in DRR and lessons learned. Academics, students and practitioners in public administration can benefit from this book.

The global community aspires for human development for every individual and it is a core component of the millennium development goals. Every country is also aiming at human security over and above state security in pursuing national development. But the challenges posed by climate change stand in the way, thus, adaptation has become a buzzword in national and local governance discourses. Climate change adaptation (CCA) is, in fact, just a program in disaster risk reduction (DRR), which is a general approach to ensuring human security; hence, human development. Policy analysis as a process needs to be guided by a holistic view incorporating human security, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, which this book intends to achieve. The author advances his own conceptual model called "Risk Alleviation Model." This book forms the theoretical background of an ongoing research by the author on "Policy Network of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the Province of Albay, Philippines" as a requirement of the course Doctor of Philosophy major in Public Administration at Aquinas University of Legazpi, his third doctorate degree.

Democratization in South Korea has gone a long way alongside globalization of the country brought about by an exemplary economic development. However, social issues have persisted for long due to the long-time priority of government placed on economic growth. Since the democratic and reformist regimes of Kim, Dae Jung and Rho, Moo Yun, welfare development took a favorable turn resulting in pluralist policies addressing the demands of vulnerable and marginalized sectors. Meanwhile, the dearth in Korean labor brought the influx of migrant workers from various parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia, South Asia and China. Consequently, multiculturalism has become a shimmering issue threatening social integration of the Korean society. This book analyzes the strategy of collaborative governance as used by the Korean leadership to address such social problems. This book contains two academic papers written by the author for presentation in separate international seminars in South Korea. This book, however, precedes such public dissemination. Professors and students of government studies will find this book useful as well as government officials in the social sector.

Career counseling is a major function of a guidance program of the university, which is given to senior high school students. Likewise, a university, such as Aquinas University of Legazpi, Philippines needs to track higher education preferences of senior students in its service area for the purpose of curriculum development and the like. This book reports the research findings of Dr. Susan Bobadilla, which was partly based on a previous study of Dr. Bernaldez when he was Dean of the College of Business Administration at Aquinas University. The book analyzes the congruence between the higher education preferences by senior students in the province of Albay, Philippines with manpower demand in the province. School administrators, guidance counselors, teachers and parents will find this book helpful in student services and development program planning and implementation. Likewise, manpower development authorities in government, business executives and youth can derive information from this book relative to career preferences and manpower demands.

School Based Management (SBM) has been recently implemented by the Philippines' Department of Education in order to enhance the total quality of educational management in public schools in the country. The City Division of Legazpi, in pursuit of overall improvement of schools, launched the SBM program in both the elementary and secondary levels. This study was conducted to assess the level of implementation of the program by the schools in the city division and to determine the progress the surveyed schools have made in the process. This book comes out of the full length report which was done by the principal researcher with the guidance of the professor. The book intends to orient the reader to the mechanics of SBM assessment as well as provide information on how the results can be interpreted and utilized for the improvement of educational management. It is hoped that this book will be of significance to the fields of educational administration and teacher education. School administrators, teachers, community leaders and civil society as well as students and researchers will benefit much from this book.

Koreans currently form the biggest foreign community in the Philippines and settlement projects, such as the Korean Village proposed in Ligao City, Albay, are designed for the assimilation of Korean families, businessmen and organizations into Filipino community life. The proposed Korean Village herein studied has been the product of collaborative relations between the local governments of Ligao City, Philippines and Goyang City, South Korea. This book reports on the research work conducted by the authors in 2011 to determine the perceived development impact of the Korean Village project on Ligao City. The book offers insights on cross-sectional views of government officials, civil society leaders, businessmen and private individuals. A holistic picture is portrayed on how a settlements project would benefit or imply to the local government unit hosting it. Public administrators, educators and students in government studies, businessmen, government planners, and other entities will gather relevant information from this book.

This work is a fusion of two academic papers read at the 2011 World Congress for Korean Politics and Society held in Incheon Songdo, South Korea, last August 23-25, which was organized by the Korean Political Association and at the 2012 Korean Government Studies Conference in Andong City, South Korea on April 27-28, 2012, sponsored by the Korean Association for Government Studies. It proposes that in global governance, human security should be mainstreamed; regional inter-state associations must adopt its conceptualization as paradigmatic reference in policy making; and nation-states should incorporate it in social policy development. This monograph serves as a reference for social social science educators and students as well as government social policy makers and implementers. It reviews the different conceptializations of human security by international organizations and policy writers. It also discusses briefly global governance and the need to mainstream human security therein. For application, the author derives implications in the contexts of East Asia, specifically in the ASEAN region and the Korean Peninsula. More detailed implications are drawn for South Korea.