PSC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Scientific Method
3 Sep 2017
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Political science is not knowing as much as possible about politics. it is about using. May have an inspirational role in writing, but . Tangible data (think of these like an ingredient ) Must be able to follow and prosecute a recipe (or steps to a result) Others must be able to use your ingredients (data) and recipe (steps leading to a result) and obtain research information of their own. Ex: research on voting (honestly, look it up, great example) Cumulative : new research builds an existing research (built on verifiability and falsifiability) Broader ideas about structure of government & power in society. Process of making policies and the forces (internal and external) of governments that influence other processes. Focuses on interests between nations and international organizations. All the above mentions characteristics (scientific research methods) Collect & synthesis peer-reviewed research on your topic.
