16 Questions
What is political science?
The scientific study of politics.
What are the three sub-disciplines of modern political science?
Comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.
When did contemporary political science start to take shape?
In the latter half of the 19th century.
What fields are the antecedents of the modern discipline of political science?
Moral philosophy, political economy, political theology, and history.
What was political science commonly considered along with in the late 19th century?
History.
What did political science begin to separate itself from in the latter half of the 19th century?
Political philosophy and history.
What marked the advent of political science as a university discipline?
The creation of university departments and chairs with the title of political science arising in the late 19th century.
When were the American Political Science Association and the American Political Science Review founded?
1903 and 1906, respectively.
Who defined political science as 'the science of the state'?
Munroe Smith
When was the International Political Science Association founded?
1949
What characterized early behavioral political science?
A focus on studying political behavior, rather than institutions or interpretation of legal texts.
What did the late 1960s and early 1970s witness in the discipline of political science?
A takeoff in the use of deductive, game-theoretic formal modelling techniques aimed at generating a more analytical corpus of knowledge.
Who played a key role in setting up political science departments that were distinct from other disciplines?
APSA members
What did the study of political science share some historical predecessors with?
Both normative and positive political science
What are political scientists marked by, in addition to a concern for 'modernity' and the contemporary nation state?
A great concern for classical thought and more terminology with sociologists (e.g., structure and agency).
When did APSA membership rise from 204 to 1,462?
From 1904 to 1915
Learn the basics of political science, including systems of governance, power, political activities, and political thought. Explore the sub-disciplines of comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.
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