POL S235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Comparative Politics, Amylase, Operationalization
16 Jan 2017
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Asking why is the core of comparative politics or about cause and e ect but are also interested in normative questions of what is right and wrong. Comparative politics: the sub eld of politic science that aims to amylase multiple cases using the comparative method. Open-ended question: a question that, in principal, is open to numerous possible answers. Empirical: drawn from observations of the world undercover cause and e ect and uncovering why the world function as it does. Normative: concerned with specifying which sort of practice or institution is morally or ethically justi ed. Concept: an idea comparativists use to think about the process we study. Conceptualization: the deliberate process through which we create and select social-scienti c concepts. Satori"s ladder of abstraction: the idea we can organize concepts on the basis of their speci city or generality. Operationalization: the process through which we make a concept measurable.
