P Philippine Public Administration: 5Es and an A Alex B. Brillantes 1 and Maria Pilar Lorenzo 2 1 University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance, Quezon City, Philippines 2 Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Synonyms Expansion of classic framework of Public Admin- istration; Government principles; Philippine Pub- lic Administration Definition 5 Es and an A is a conceptual framework that seeks to expand the classic framework of Public Administration given the context of a developing country like the Philippines that grapples with well-entrenched issues of inequality, lack of inclu- sive growth, nepotism, and corruption. Introduction The discipline of Public Administration has many times been considered a sub-field of the general field of management and administration, and thus, tends to focus on the three general classic con- cerns of economic, efficiency, and effectiveness, also referred to as the 3 Es of Public Administra- tion. However, given the context of the Philip- pines, a developing country that has been confronted with deeply rooted issues on inequal- ities, lack of inclusive growth, nepotism, and cor- ruption, Public Administration has always gone beyond the traditional 3Es – and it is not unrea- sonable to assume that this may be also true for other contexts – as other, and perhaps more rele- vant, principles have to undergird the theoretical underpinnings and practice of the discipline. Defining Public Administration Many countries today continue to grapple with the challenges of growing inequality and graft and corruption that have hindered growth and devel- opment. Conventional thinking has always related these to the unresponsive – and underdeveloped – administrative structures and procedures, some- times referred to as “maladministration” (Caiden 1991:486). Certainly, good administration boils down to the so-called 3Es of management, econ- omy, efficiency, and effectiveness, which are all undeniably critical. But equally important are the principles of equity, ethics, and accountability wherein the lack of these in practice also lead to maladministration and have also been character- ized as “bureaupathologies” that are “systemic shortcomings of organizations that cause © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 A. Farazmand (ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4134-1