POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science

Introduction

Political science is a social science that studies the theory and practice of political systems and political behavior. The objective of science policy is to establish, from the observation of events and political situations, general principles about the workings of politics. This is an industry that interacts with many other social sciences, such as public policy, the economy, the sociology, the international relations, etc (Ross, 2010).

Thesis Statement

Political science is a social science that studies mainly implementation, distribution and organization of power in society.

Name

The dispute over the name for this discipline is as old as the discipline itself raises political scientists in this context, the claim to neutrality and to a strict distinction between politics and policy. A politician makes policy; a political scientist sits down with scientific and political issues apart.

Many of the mostly unsuccessful attempt by the tag set, the name of political science, which was founded in 1880 in English (Roskin, 2008). The term political science often gives the impression of reduction to a politicized science or pure policy guidance, slight limitations for the very concept of political science is applied to, and political science. The latter is due to the fact that it is the subject of a wide range of scientific disciplines involved, all aimed at dealing with politics.

What Is Political Science?

According to Norberto Bobbio in his famous Dictionary of Politics, there are two meanings, one broad, Political Science and another in the narrow sense, political science. The first would cover all policy-related studies from antiquity to the present day, including all the philosophers and theorists who have thought writing and policy analysis from Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, etc. Strictly speaking, is the contemporary political science, grew out of the current behavioral therapy that tries to observe the attitudes of politicians and citizens under strictly scientific assumptions. In both meanings, political science is the object of study power is exercised in a human collective. Thus, political science is responsible for analyzing the power relations that are embedded in a social group, whatever its size, local, national, international and worldwide (Isaak, 2008).

Power, where social actor has the capacity to influence others, is present in all human interactions, which is then the existence of at least two entities, i.e., two actors who are interrelated. Thus, the exercise of power is found inseparable from war, peace, negotiation, consensus, discord and harmony, the authority, domination, obedience, justice, order, change, revolution, participation and any other situation where there is potential or actual encounter between two actors with intentions manifest or latent, to superimpose their interests to the interests of another.

Politics and Science

The science, as an activity that seeks to know the realities, is at an intellectual level of human nature, but cannot divest the self from the influences that the interrelations of power produced. Thus, knowledge is often driven or stopped by the decisions of power that prevails in a given society.

Then, there could be multiple dichotomies: politics and art, politics and education and so on, ...