Notes for Government and Politics Chapter 1 Politics: Setting the Stage
Title: Notes for Government and Politics Chapter 1 Politics: Setting the Stage
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Details: Words: 712 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Notes for Government and Politics Chapter 1 Politics: Setting the Stage
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 712 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Chapter ONE
Politics: Setting the Stage
I. What do political scientists study?
Study politics and analyze it.
Ex. Measure just how much it actually costs a country to lose a war, devise a new system of voting in primaries that might have led to a different set of candidate for most presidential elections, study the spread of welfare reforms across the states, study why democracies almost never wage war on other democracies.
II. Politics: What
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detailed, nonnumerical information on a few cases.
Behavioralist/quantitative: lean more to abstract mechanical theories of politics and to statistical analyses of numerical information.
Theory- statement linking specific instances to broader principles. Are the building blocks of political science.
Empirical theories are theories describing how things work in the world we observe. ( X causes Y)
Normative theories involve making a judgment about the world, not describing how it works. (What should X be or do?)