POLI 346 Lecture 2: POLI 346 Sept 5
17 Aug 2015
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And if accurate, it points to causal factors and then. How will we manipulate the future: in ir, nothing will be completely perfect information- we look more at likelihoods and accuracy, we use theories to, describe the past, predict the future, give policy prescriptions. Evaluating theories: accuracy, generalizability, this may not be as important here because we are looking at just one country. Prob not generalizable, less likely to be like american economy: get more accuracy with more causal and independent variables. But costs on parimony bit, and usually generalizability. Inside vs. outside theories: inside the he countries borders, outside- the external forces (systemic influences etc) in this class, we will address the inside more than the outside, contemp. , fp, to compare states look inside: trend in ir, to emphasize domestic politics, a version of liberalism on the domestic side, been a parallel idea with realists- (structural)
