POLI 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Face Validity, Jared Diamond, September 11 Attacks
16 Dec 2016
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Frisch and kelly, diamond, berman, main fowler insights, enos, and fuji. Scientific approach to politics: the goal of this is to use critical thought as the guide to our perceptions of the political world. Provides a way of applying empirical data to normative questions and public policy debates. Normative analysis: the realm of political theory and philosophy. Describes how society and political life ought to be. Test - is there sound logic and high internal consistency? based. Goal is to describe and explain the political world as it is. Keep in mind that even this requires making normative decisions as operationalization occurs. Intersubjectivity: empirical facts must be independently observed and agreed upon by many. More than one observation. causal relationship between variables and empirically testing those hypotheses. Science: a set of rules to help us understand the world around us. Positivism: the essence of the scientific method. Empiricism: concept that almost anything can be objectively measured.
