4 major sub fields of Political Science
Domestic policies to the U.S.
What is American Politics
World is composed of systematic and predictable components and non systematic and unpredictable components
What is 1 of the assumptions of empirical research
Identify the domain or a set of cases over which the theory is expected to operate
What is scope conditions
Theory that explains more by using less
What is Parsimony
Observable facts, or events, subjects of scientific investigation
What is phenomena
What is International Relations
Asks about how the world is / works. Concerned with actual events/ phenomena, things that have occurred or are occurring , interested in general explanations rather Han specific instances.
What is empirical research
Specific chain of steps, series of links or other specific accounting of how or why the expectation works. Hint: the cause
What is causal mechanism
Theory that suggest different observable implications
What is fertility
Pieces of evidence that you would expect to find if your hypothesis was incorrect
What is falsifiers
Political Philosophy to contemporary problems
Political Theory
The social world exists as a distinct entity that we can study independently or outside ourselves
What is the 2nd core assumption of Empirical research
Claims or beliefs, typically implicit ones about how the world operates
What is assumptions
Reject and discard theories that don’t explain the world well
What is Falsifiability
Empirical patterns that you’d expect to see if your hypothesis was correct
What is observable implications
Comparing politics to other countries
What is Comparative Politics
How things should be or what policies are best
What is Normative research
what the author expects to happen. Short form of answer to the question
What is expectation?
The outcome, the phenomena you want to explain. Abbreviated as DV
The characteristics of the cases that you will be able to observe and measure to test your argument
What is Indicators
Addresses issues of what if or what might be
What is hypothetical research
You might find this type of research online
What is Factual/ procedural research
Reasoned and precise speculation about the answer to a research question and tells why that answer is expected by specifying a mechanism, chain of events, reactions, or changes that connect the IV and DV variable
What is a theory
The cause, explains the phenomena you’re interested in. Abbreviated as IV
A statement of the relationship between what you expect to find between your independent variable (cause) and dependent variable (outcome)
What is hypothesis