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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
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