PSCI 2401 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Gallows Humor, Media Matters For America, Program Evaluation
5 Oct 2016
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From course requirements, challenges of political science, and how canada compares to dictatorships. To canadian policy themes in lydia miljan, ch. Scientific task of measuring indicators reflecting concepts in a verbal proposition. Operational testing of a theory: an example: conceptual proposition: economic development creates conditions for democracy, concepts: economic development, democracy. Seven scientific challenges to political science: culture and preconceptions, prevarication, changing validity, requirement for many competencies, when data points are or are not adequate, economic interests, politics, public affairs campaigns, political sentiment and ideology. Politics whatever at least people/analysts deem a public matter, for government to influence, not a private matter. Government the institution with a virtual monopoly of violence on a territory. Ibn kaldun (arab-tunisian 14th c. ): government as the institution that prevents injustice other than what it commits itself. In 20th c. communist dictatorships, polit-bureau/kgb > cabinet/legislature. In 21st c. iran, religious oligarchy decides who may run for office.
