PSCI 2012 Lecture 31: ALL NOTES PSCI 2012
28 Nov 2017
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12& 13: politics, comparative, comparative politics, the making of authoritative public choices from private preference (samuels. 2013, 5: authoritative : very slipper concept, but, for me, implies obligation, bindingness. Samuels 2013, 4,5: systematic is a synonym for science, consistent with cp being a subfield of the discipline of. This is what we call inference: comparative politics, we work with specifics in order to generalize, science: normative (should statements/not what we do in. Political science) v. positive: we will not operate in the realm of normative theory, i. e. , theory about what should be or ought to be, this will be a major temptation for you. Page 3 of 185: we will operate in the realm of positive theory. It"s a good try, but very difficult to do: in sum, explanation (why things happen) and generalization leads to the idea of causal inferences. Page 4 of 185: we always start with questions about the world.
