POL-UA 500 Lecture 1: POL-UA 500, Lecture 1 Notes
5 Dec 2016
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is: these questions attempt to understand what happens in the political world and why. The answers to these are useful for policy making, and form the basis of this course. ought: these questions are ultimately concerned with ideas as to how politics should be conducted, and arguments can be made about them, based on beliefs. This is normative political theory, which is not covered in this course. / if we care about y, what are the x"s that will explain/affect it? b. International politics: between states, actors are states or nations. This is international relations and international political economy - not in this course. Examples: elections, policy changes (ex. minimum wage hikes), taxation, civil wars (debated). Comparative vs. american politics (within domestic politics) i. This course is not concerned with this distinction - it"s mostly an arbitrary us-centric one made in us universities. This is what we do when we do comparative politics.
