GOVT 141
Concept:
1. How do we know we are talking about and how do we know if we are talking about the same thing.
2. Unobservable concepts: not being about to specify and well defined.
3. Concepts of historical weight behind them: e.g the “left” movement. Coherent features.
4. Red America: people go to church, republican ruled, country music
a) Blue America: don’t go to church, democratic, urban
5. Reference: extension: without a clear boundary
6. Definition: with specific attributes and features that defined those regions.
7. Operationalization: measurement.
a) Field utility: how concepts related to other concepts.
b) Resonance: how people react when hear the concept.
Democratization:
1. Public contestation (liberalization) and participation (inclusiveness)
Lecture 2
Cause:
How to describe:
1. Generalization: general description of a group
2. Classification: sorting. Typology
a) Criteria
a.i. Mutually exclusive
a.ii. Exhaustive
a.iii. Comparable
3. Constitution:
a) Plato：interested in speaking of concept, ideal, nature of a thing
b) Aristotle: interested in scientific things.
b.i. Polis: things pertaining to the polis (city-state) is politics.
b.i.1. Republic by Plato describes an ideal polis.
b.i.2. Aristotle: constitution from various city-state, outlined the constitution of other cities, describe and define different city-state.
c) Constitution:
c.i. The interest of the ruling government
c.ii. Ruling types:
c.ii.1. Governing with the common interest
c.ii.2. Perverted type: government that interest in their selves.
c.ii.3. Ancient Greek use of democrary.
c.iii. Constitutional government V.S. democracy
4. Causality:
a) German election
a.i. How to predict: poll of voting intentions, because
a.ii. History/ past election results
a.iii. Election at other levels
a.iv. Economic indicator
a.v. Demographics
a.vi. Comparable countries
a.vii. Candidate popularity/ incumbent rate
a.vii.1. What are the strength of
1. How do we know we are talking about and how do we know if we are talking about the same thing.
2. Unobservable concepts: not being about to specify and well defined.
3. Concepts of historical weight behind them: e.g the “left” movement. Coherent features.
4. Red America: people go to church, republican ruled, country music
a) Blue America: don’t go to church, democratic, urban
5. Reference: extension: without a clear boundary
6. Definition: with specific attributes and features that defined those regions.
7. Operationalization: measurement.
a) Field utility: how concepts related to other concepts.
b) Resonance: how people react when hear the concept.
Democratization:
1. Public contestation (liberalization) and participation (inclusiveness)
Lecture 2
Cause:
How to describe:
1. Generalization: general description of a group
2. Classification: sorting. Typology
a) Criteria
a.i. Mutually exclusive
a.ii. Exhaustive
a.iii. Comparable
3. Constitution:
a) Plato：interested in speaking of concept, ideal, nature of a thing
b) Aristotle: interested in scientific things.
b.i. Polis: things pertaining to the polis (city-state) is politics.
b.i.1. Republic by Plato describes an ideal polis.
b.i.2. Aristotle: constitution from various city-state, outlined the constitution of other cities, describe and define different city-state.
c) Constitution:
c.i. The interest of the ruling government
c.ii. Ruling types:
c.ii.1. Governing with the common interest
c.ii.2. Perverted type: government that interest in their selves.
c.ii.3. Ancient Greek use of democrary.
c.iii. Constitutional government V.S. democracy
4. Causality:
a) German election
a.i. How to predict: poll of voting intentions, because
a.ii. History/ past election results
a.iii. Election at other levels
a.iv. Economic indicator
a.v. Demographics
a.vi. Comparable countries
a.vii. Candidate popularity/ incumbent rate
a.vii.1. What are the strength of