Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Nationstates, Freeriding, Authoritarianism
27 Apr 2014
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Political science is terrible at predicting: a lot of guess work, very hard to predict events (almost impossible, hard to predict elections, therefore, political science is not a very good science, but is a soft" science. Humans are not as easy to study as the earth for example, because: humans can go against theory whereas rock or cloud can"t people are different and make different choices, this is because humans have so many variables (economics, history, values, society, sociology, culture, institutions) Political sociology/anthropology: macroeconomics, by understanding society and culture, you can understand politics (politics is a function of society and culture, flawed in too many ways so never became paradigm. Neo institutionalism: looks at politics as explaining politics, germany and u. s. started studying institutions, legislatures, constitutions, looked at how these operated in different places, never became paradigm because that is not enough to.
