Lecture 1

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what is Political Science? (2 def)

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• the study of theory and practice of government and politics, focusing on the structure and dynamics of institutions, behaviors, and processes • systemic study of politics including institutions, behavior,and processes

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political science in simpler terms?

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The study of theory on how something should be and how something is

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the process by which people negotiate and compete in the process of making and executing shared or collective decisions

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politics

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politics in simple terms

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the distribution of who gets what, when, a nd why

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• capacity to bring about intended effects • the ability of actor A to get actor B to do something they wouldn’t otherwise do

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Power

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more appealing to some formality

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soft power

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Actors

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the thing we are interested in studying

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government

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how society organized itself and how it allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals and provide benefits to society as a whole

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government in simple terms

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how society decided to organize itself and how it makes decisions

#10

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the function of a government

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able to make decisions and enforce laws

#11

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institutions & example

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the set of rules and norms that govern behavior ex: Lamar university, tennis

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norms

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socialized accepted behavior

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Political science uses

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the scientific method

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Steps of the scientific method 95)

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• observation • ask a question • form a hypothesis aka causation (testable explation) • Test • Ilterate (repeat the experiment)

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Iterate meaning

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to repeat

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What 4 things does good science have?

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• falsifiable • parsimonious • replicable • level of accuracy is usually high t

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Good Science Falsifiable

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you can prove whatever you are conducting to be false

#18

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if you cannot prove something to be false then it is a

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conspiracy theory

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Good Science Parsimonious

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simple keep your theory and hypothesis simple

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Good Science Replicable

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Transparent other people can see what you did and can also do it themselves and have the same outcome

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What does N represent?

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Number of Cases

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cases

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an example of a phenomenon of interest

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population of cases

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EVERY EXAMPLE of the phenomenon that exists

#24

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Small Number of cases (N) includes

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