Is Poli. Sci. a science?
- John Lewis Gaddis:
    - Imagined prediction vs. replicating/reproducing results is
      intuitive difference
    - Five standards:
        - Parsimony: smallest laws that predict human behavior
            - Poli. Sci. has some laws, but thety aren't strictj
        - Variables
            - Nominal: positive or negative (did or didn't happen)
            - Ordinal, ordered preferences
                - Nonlinear, subjective
            - Continuous (very wide variation, more scientific)
                - political science has fewer, making it less replicate.
        - Accounting for change
            - Cold War wasn't accurately predicted
            - Predictions by poli. sci. are typically bad
        - Commensurability
            - Common results and definitions
            - Political Science doesn't have singular, consistent
              definitions (see: democracy, war)
        - Objectivtiy
            - Poli. Sci. is often subjective and requires bias for
              proper analysis
            - But so are hard sciences like medicine.
    - Concludes that poli. sci is a science because it
        - tries to obtain these goals (it is very young so less adv)
        - predicts or prepares