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Political leadership and education politics: the mayor and education services in Nasugbu, Batangas

Abstract This study looks at political leadership and education politics at the municipal level. In particular, it looks at the informal rules governing the local education service sector, and how these rules affected the assumed roles of the municipal mayor as the local chief executive and as one of the local school board co-chairs in the municipality of Nasugbu in the province of Batangas. Using a new institutional approach, this study focuses on the informal institutions or the rules-in-use in the context of local education politics, and uses Ostrom’s typology of working rules to identify the specific rules and Leach and Lowndes’ classification of leadership roles. The findings suggest that the municipal mayor, through the informal rules, was able to shape, create, and/or recreate his position. This enabled him to assume specific roles in the local education service sector, which are not necessarily provided in the formal rules. However, there were limitations as to the extent of the effect of rules-in-use and the kind of roles the mayor assumed.