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The second component of political science is the component that consists of empirical data. This is the real information behind a situation. It includes the causes of events and patterns of public action as well as many other aspects of empirical data. We use our observational powers and reason, along with many other tools, to investigate significant problems, including the Benghazi attack. When data is collected, it is used to test hypotheses and help predict what will happen when similar factors meet. In this component we would ask, "Who pushed the video?". A political scientist would look for evidence supporting a hypothesis related to this question. He or she would collect data from people involved in the response to the attack and then present his or her evidence. A more general question that would be represented in this component of political science is the question of why exactly the

Political science is known to be one of the most ignored sciences there are. Over the years, there has not been a demand for everyone to pay attention to politics because people always have their own opinion anyways. Ten Things Political Scientists Know that You Don’t was an article written by Hans Noel. His main objective to writing this was to inform readers of the reasons why politics is something that is important to understand. Many journalists and bloggers became more aware of politics and want to know more about what political scientists actually know. This article also wants to inform many people that political science is something that you can study over a period of time, which is the real reason to pay attention to elections. Hans Noel came up with 10 different things that political scientists know but American citizens do not.

Politics is not as the common person may define it. It is not dependent of any other doctrine or ideology; it is its

Political theory emerged as a separate science and way of thinking in the last half of the

Our text mentions that Political Science “seeks to study human behavior through the use of a scientific method that,

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth, even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.” There is no clearer example of this than of that in the almost exclusively conservative refusal to acknowledge the existence of climate change, even in the face of ample amounts of scientific research proving the legitimacy of global warming. If government officials accept the truth, they will be forced to take an ethical high road, which will require them to spend money that they wish to spend in other ways, many of which indirectly (and occasionally directly) benefit them as individuals, and worse, to admit that their political opponents were

The scientific method is a process with four explicit steps. The steps include making observations, making a hypothesis, performing an experiment by collecting quantitative and qualitative data, and analyzing the results. This method ensures that one’s hypothesis supports their claims and that there is room for improvement, which is why if the government had to use the scientific method to analyze and solve society’s problems and politics were never involved in the solutions, corruption would mostly diminish and justice would triumph. In contemporary times, regarding politics, politicians use fear and form presumptions with no evidence behind them, which causes misinformation to spread. Comparatively, with the scientific method approach, politicians

Over the years, political scientists have expressed their disapproval of American elections. They have openly stated that presidential elections do not matter. The reason being, is that they believe the outcome of elections is a result of forces outside of the campaigner’s influence. For example, the state of the economy, partisan loyalties, and normative, communicative, and symbolic roles are all disconnected from the influence of the campaigner. The latter mentioned aspects (anthropological), according to political scientists, receive little attention from scholars, but their impacts are very substantial. They restore confidence in governing institutions, result in an upsurge in mutual feelings, and give the citizenry hope of a better governing body after elections

The social scientist is not some autonomous being standing outside society, the question is where he (sic) stands within it . . . (Mills, 1959, p. 204) . . . learn to use your life experience in your intellectual work: continually to examine it and interpret it. (Mills, 1959, p. 216)

Politics is so all encompassing that there is almost nothing that it doesn’t involve itself in. A broad definition for politics could be “the activity in which conflicting interests struggle for advantage or dominance in the making and execution of public policies.” I believe this definition can be interpreted many different ways. However, this definition does demonstrate a few of the elements of politics as politics truly is about conflicting interests and advantages for one side over the other. A great example of conflicting interests is the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.

Politics refers to the science of government concerned with influencing policy’s.

So which is it? Politics is the institutional framework where mankind's capacity to reason reconciles itself with its desires. This process that naturally goes on inside man's head is also a dialogue between men as soon as the capacity to communicate ideas is explored. Admitting that politics is natural however is merely a descriptive statement. The question I would bring up as I do in "Enchiridion" is what we should make of this nature. Saying that man is naturally political does not tell us whether

Politics is about the distribution of power. In the Introduction to Social Science course guide it is stated that, “politics can be anywhere”. Therefore, politics is in the language we speak. Power is the “ ability to

Rational choice theory is actually more than one theory per se, but the basic similarities among its variants mean that they can be intelligibly amalgamated for the purposes of critiquing its implementation in political science. Therefore public choice theory, positive political science, rational actor models, and the economic approach to politics, among others, refer to what we may call rational choice theory for the purposes of this essay. (See Green and Shapiro 1994, xi.

The term ‘politics’ itself has changed over many years. To ask if the evolution of political culture changes how people participate in politics is simple. The answer is yes. To begin with, let’s define political culture; ‘Authors define the term political culture as the particular distribution of patterns of orientation towards political objects among the members of a nation’ (Almond and Verba 1963: 13 cited in Welzel and Inglehart, 2014 p.285). Now let’s define culture; ‘the term culture covers a broad set of phenomena. It includes traditions, habits, and patterns of behaviour shaped by a society’s prevailing beliefs, norms and values’ (Nolan and Lenski, 1999 cited in Welzel and Inglehart, 2014 p.285). Taking this into account, examples of culture could be how to play hopscotch in a playground or following the rules to a game of tennis or badminton. To address the question, this essay will firstly assess how any capable individual is able to participate in politics and secondly if the growth of political culture has increased or decreased participation.