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| author | Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev> | 2020-08-19 11:11:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev> | 2020-08-19 11:11:32 -0400 |
| commit | 62528cfc7dc6ab67f7bc8672f24afa66ef79d07a (patch) | |
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| parent | ecdeb0e3db77f27c60aa69d36355675e4edd6ed5 (diff) | |
added lecture two for Rich
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diff --git a/rich/02_general b/rich/02_general new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13bbc20 --- /dev/null +++ b/rich/02_general @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Why study political science? +Because it deeply affects governmental association and how we are +situated in the world. + +Defun politics: + - The process of resolving conflicts and deciding "who gets what" + (Laswell) + - Power is politics + - Power modifies behavior. + +Concerns of a political scientist + - Patterns of events + - Three goals + - Description (history) + - Prediction + - Ex: what predicts war? + - Not resources, territory, or even previous war + - Borders + - Prescription + - Longest unfortified border in world is Canada+US + +Research and Methodology +- Political Science tries to support its theories +- Methodologies + - Logic + - Observation + - Quantitative Methods + - Mathematical modeling |