GOVT2991 Lecture 1: Introduction; What is Political Science
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Textbook: david marsh and gerry stoker (2010) theory and methods in political science . Available from the coop bookshop on campus or online. Reader: a unit reader will be available from kopystop, 55 mountain st, broadway. What unites political analysts is a concern with the provenance, forms, distribu- tion, use, control, consequences and analysis of political power. What separates them is the differences in their focus and the levels and frameworks of analysis. From a minimalist approach- political science is science in that it offers ordered knowledge based on systematic enquiry. For leftwitch the first-the arena, or site approach holds that politics is an activity found only in certain kinds of societies and institutional sites or processes within those societies. -first defines the field of study by reference to an area or set of institutions . Behavioualists, rational choice theorists and institutional analysis-is devoted to the.