POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Science, Causal Inference
21 Feb 2018
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American presidents, from us, all men, most white > politics to why that is the case. In a parade: intimidation tactics signalling how powerful you are. Point here: politics affects all aspects of our lives and societies, political decisions affect the economy, freedoms, sending troops to ght in other parts of the world, receiving refugees, investing in science, providing health care. Reality is a construction, things aren"t what they are without their names etc. Importance of concepts: power, authority, legitimacy, common good complexity and simplicity. A science of politics? knowledge, objective, scienti c method democracies don"t ght one another, but what is the de nition of a democracy? (war in political. Politics of knowledge (innovation comes from certain parts of the world) Social science: one way (of many) to understand politics. Empirical side understanding how politics work, what the relationships are between different elements, etc details, patterns, generalization.
