POLITICAL SCIENCE 111 *WHAT IS POLITICS? Politics is exciting because people disagree about all aspects of life. For Aristotle‚ this made politics the ‘master science’; i.e. nothing less than the activity through which human beings attempt to improve their lives and create a good society. POLITICAL SCIENCE= POLITICS + SCIENCE Politics can be defined in two broad senses; POLITICS AS AN ACTIVITY—This involves the processes whereby people in the society try to make‚ preserve and amend the laws
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of Political Science‚ Abakaliki: Department of Political Science‚ Ebonyi State University‚ 2009. CHAPTER 2 The Study of Politics: Logic‚ Approaches and Methods Nkwachukwu Orji Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the methodological issues relating to the study of politics. The chapter will examine the logic‚ approaches and methods that underpin the study of politics. It will explain the relationship between logic‚ approaches and methods in political science research
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importance in world politics. Ultimately we have seen the emergence of the concept of global governance. Since the beginning of the Cold War‚ “global governance” (GG) has played a major role in world politics and GG is particularly important in the new millennium as the world faces threats to global security‚ pandemics‚ and a growing oil crisis. Consequently‚ new actors have been created to deal with growing global problems‚ such as transnational organizations‚ and international government organizations
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POLITICS‚ GOVERNANCE & THE NEW PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION CONCEPT OF CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION defined. A constitution is “that body of rules and maxims in accordance with which the powers of sovereignty are habitually exercised.” Broadly speaking‚ every state has some kind of a constitution—a leading principle that prevails in the “administration of its government until it has become an understood part of its system‚ to which obedience is expected and habitually yielded.” (Cooley‚ 1868) In a restricted
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Key Concepts in Politics GVPT 100 SEPTEMBER 12‚ 2007 OUTLINE 1. What is a Concept? 2. Fundamental Political Concepts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. GOVERNMENT/GOVERNANCE HUMAN NATURE LAW POWER SOVEREIGNTY STATE CONCEPT A concept is a general idea about something‚ usually expressed in a single word or a short phrase. A concept is more than a proper noun or the name of a thing. Concepts are ’general’ in the sense that they can refer to a number of objects‚ indeed to any
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ideology? Why is it still important to study such political thought? Political ideologies are usually defined within a left-right political spectrum. Nazism falls outside this conventional spectrum and falls within syncretic politics. It is a negative form of syncretic politics‚ as it is located on the far right of the political spectrum. Nazism is a mixture of Völkisch ideals‚ Wagnerian Romanticism‚ Social Darwinism‚ Pan Germanism‚ and Nietzsche ’s concept of Übermensch. Adolf Hitler developed the ideals
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INTODUCTION Public administration is indispensable of decision making because decision making very crucial in the sustenance of organisations. There are a number of decision making models .These include rational comprehensive model‚ satisficing model‚ incremental model and mixed scanning model. All of them have their assumptions‚ strengths and weaknesses to be discussed below. None of these models is the best but it depends on the nature of the problem at hand. However‚ one may argue that rational
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officials to exercise power 2. Constitutionalism: the idea that there are lawful restrictions on government’s power 3. Corporate power: operates in part through the influence that firms have with policy makers 4. Democracy: a form of government in which the people govern‚ either directly or through an elected representative. 5. Elitism: the power well exercised by well positioned and high influential individuals 6. Free market system: operates mainly on private transactions. Firms
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Mindanao State University Graduate School MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Tamontaka‚ Datu Odin Sinsuat‚ Maguindanao LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION I – Introduction: The history of national-local relations in the Philippines is characterized by centralism. The central government from the Spanish regime up to now maintained a very strong control and influence over local governments. The evidence of such centralist tendency is Section 4‚ Article X of the 1987 Constitution which provides that
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