What is political science?

Question

What does it discover? What does it invent? What laws of science does it involve? Is it just one person's propaganda versus another's? Enlighten me as to what makes politics a science?

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Answer 1

Political science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior.

Topics in political science include political theory and philosophy, political concepts, political systems and ideology, game theory, psephology (voting systems and electoral behaviour), political economy, geopolitics and political geography, policy studies and public policy analysis, comparative politics, national systems, cross-national political analysis, supranational and intergovernmental politics, globalisation studies, political development, international relations, foreign policy analysis, peace studies, conflict analysis, international law and politics, public administration and local government studies, political psychology, bureaucracy, administrative and judicial behaviour, legislative processes and public law. Political Science also studies power in international relations and the theory of great powers and superpowers.

Political science is methodologically diverse. Approaches to the discipline include classical political philosophy, interpretivism, structuralism, and behavioralism, rationalism, realism, pluralism, and institutionalism. Political science, as one of the social sciences, uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources such as historical documents and official records, secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles, survey research, statistical analysis, case studies, and model building.

Herbert Baxter Adams is credited with coining the phrase "political science" while teaching history at Johns Hopkins University

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Science, in the broadest sense, refers to any system of objective knowledge. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research.

Answer 2

I think when things are considered a science it is because one goes through the scientific method to discover things. I feel like political science is clearly the study of politics, but also it uses the scientific method (Question, Hypothesize, Observe, Data, Conclusion) to discover and analyze different political systems. It's not so much about inventing or discovering as it is about analyzing.

Answer 3

Political Science is the Study a wide range of political thought or Ideas, events, actions, and institutions.

Answer 4

Political science is the study of government in relation to people, territory, culture and other factors affecting politics. It is a science because it deals with different ideologies and system that can be best for a certain group of people.

Answer 5

Political Science is the Science of governance. To study about various administrations their rise, down fall and methods of governance.

Answer 6

Political science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior.

Topics in political science include political theory and philosophy, political concepts, political systems and ideology, game theory, psephology (voting systems and electoral behaviour), political economy, geopolitics and political geography, policy studies and public policy analysis, comparative politics, national systems, cross-national political analysis, supranational and intergovernmental politics, globalisation studies, political development, international relations, foreign policy analysis, peace studies, conflict analysis, international law and politics, public administration and local government studies, political psychology, bureaucracy, administrative and judicial behaviour, legislative processes and public law. Political Science also studies power in international relations and the theory of great powers and superpowers.

Political science is methodologically diverse. Approaches to the discipline include classical political philosophy, interpretivism, structuralism, and behavioralism, rationalism, realism, pluralism, and institutionalism. Political science, as one of the social sciences, uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources such as historical documents and official records, secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles, survey research, statistical analysis, case studies, and model building.

Answer 7

I have no clue why they call it a science. Poli-Sci is more about philosophy and sociology. But, no colleges classify as a real science. When I got my Poli-Sci degree, it was a Bachelors of Art and not a Bachelors of Science.

Answer 8

It leans so left it should be called political science-fiction

Answer 9

is the art or science of control of moral and human behavior.
Key words control moral behavior.

Answer 10

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