PS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comparative Politics, Area Studies, Inductive Reasoning
26 Oct 2021
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Intro: comparative politics: the study and comparison of domestic politics across countries. International relations: a field in political science that concentrates on relations between countries such as foreign policy, war, trade, and foreign aid. Institutions: an organization or activity that is self-perpetuating and valued for its own sake: comparative method: means by which social scientists make comparisons across cases. Inductive reasoning: research that works from case studies in order to generate hypotheses: deductive reasoning: research that works from a hypothesis that is then tested against data, problems in comparative politics, controlling variables. Illness (zika: transportation infrastructure dealt w olympic village unaffordable, brazil out of recession, land. Independence 1822: colonial legacies, portuguese, catholicism, black and white population, plantation agriculture, monarchy and political instability. Spain, the kurds are a nation without a state: society: all organized groups and individuals not under the direct control of the state, examples: workplace, social groups, family.
