Chapter 1: -Why Study Politics? – self & public interest -What is politics? – no real definition “Art of the possible” “who get what when & how” “authoritative allocation of values” -Sciences: Hard: biology‚ chemistry‚ physics‚ math(experiments can be replicated & get same results) Soft: archeology‚ political science (cant be replicated‚ lots of theories)‚ experiments cant be replicated -Basic Concepts of politics- -Power- -Political science majors study power NOT politics -Hard power- forcing someone
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Political Science Mid-term study guide Chapter 2: The Founding and the Constitution Articles of Confederation: what were they? What did they omit that the Constitution included? Which gave Congress greater powers? Significance of Shays’ Rebellion Great Compromise Three-fifths Compromise Federalism Why we have staggered elections Judicial review Most important political value for Framers Chapter 3: Federalism Has federal government grown stronger or weaker throughout American history
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Name______________________________ Class __________________ Date ______________ Chapter 4 Ecosystems and Communities Section 4–1 The Role of Climate (pages 87–89) This section explains how the greenhouse effect maintains the biosphere’s temperature range. It also describes Earth’s three main climate zones. What Is Climate? (page 87) 1. How is weather different from climate? Weather is the day-to-day condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place
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INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE Lecturer: Mr. DAKA - How To Present Our Papers in Political Science 1. INTRODUCTION - You introduce and explain how and what will be included. 2. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS - There is definition of the key terms that are present in the essay or assignment being tackled. - Use certain scholars that might have talked about the topic or question at hand. 3. MAIN BODY - Here is where you put all your data about the assignment or essay. - Put as much as
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MHF4U TEST 4 Knowledge Communication Application Thinking MHF4U TRIGONOMETRY TEST. SHOW ALL WORK. 1. How many degrees is radians? K=1 2. A car tire is spinning at a rate of 8 radians/s‚ how many rotations does the wheel make in an hour? A=2 3. If the arc subtended by an angle of 1 radian on a circle equals 35 cm‚ what is the radius of the circle? K=2 4. If the diameter of a
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Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences | |Department |Political Science | |Programme |Bachelor of Human Sciences (Political Science) | |Course Title |Introduction to Political Science
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10/20/13 How scientific is political science? | David Wearing | Comment is free | theguardian.com This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more here How scientific is political science? The study of politics claims to be objective‚ but can it – and should it – shake off our own moral and political priorities? David Wearing theguardian.com ‚ Monday 8 March 2 01 0 1 1 .3 0 GMT In the early stages of my PhD research‚ I’ve
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study of politics should be ‘scientific’ has excited controversy for centuries. What is at stake is the nature of our political knowledge‚ but the content of the argument has varied enormously. For example‚ 1741 when Hume published his essay‚ ‘That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science’‚ his concerns were very different from those of people who have sought to reduce politics to a science in the twentieth century. Although concerned to some degree to imitate the paradigm of Newtonian physics‚ Hume ’s main
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The Importance of the Study of Political Science 1. Governments are the formal institutions of politics. Where there is government‚ there is politics. Where there is politics‚ there is power. Together with the formal institution of the state‚ they constitute the political system a term to suggest that politics is indeed a complex process involving citizen’s attitudes and interests‚ group organizations‚ electioneering‚ lobbying and formulation‚ implementation and interpretation of laws. It is important
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RELATIONSHIP OF POLITICAL SCIENCE WITH OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES Relationship between political science and other social sciences The relations between political science and the other social sciences are in reality relations between sectors of different disciplines‚ and not between whole disciplines. FUNCTION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE to discover the principles that should be adhered to in public affairs to study the operations of government in order to demonstrate what is good‚ to criticize
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