POLI 244 Study Guide - Final Guide: International Court, Canadian Airspace, Irredentism

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To understand why things happen in the world. To clarify the theories we already use to understand ir. Office hours mon and wed, 1:30-3 leacock 324c. Ideal types (a concept that we use to describe something but isn"t always true and can never be completely true, e. g. america could be described as not a democracy before 1965 because black people couldn"t vote, still was) Theories: casual relationships (exchange rates, what cause x or y etc. ) Simplifications (need to simplify the situation to get the most benefit out of it) Testable/falsifiable hypotheses (e. g. democracies tend not to fight one another, to understand and deal with the situation. Co-variance (to link situations together to form a hypothesis) Some theories work better than others in certain situations. The more that you cohesion someone the more likely they are to follow you, might be counterproductive. Independent cause (what can we manipulate/ change that causes an effect)

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