POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Research Question, Tyrant, Security Dilemma
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Research question: ask a sensical question ex; author a says ___ and author b says. If it contradicts: there"s either something wrong with the source or with the hypothesis. Unlike social sci, which runs on multiple paradigms to help understand social science. What one person means by politics may not mean the same thing as what someone else says. David easton: tries to define it as allocation -- who gets what when where and how. We have to decide this in all societies. We"re talking about a whole slue of allocations. Who gets income, who gets to serve in military, etc. there"s 3 different needs by which society can allocate: tradition/custom: ex; look @ medieval europe when a system of feudalism and land ownership was runned. What you got and what obligations you intended to fulfill. If your dad was king, you"d become king. If you were born peasant, you"d die peasant.
