Author: Haroon Khalil
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Approaches and Methods
Notwithstanding the flexibility with which the two terms, approaches and methods, are employed in the study of the social sciences, particularly political science, they must be differentiated to clearly understand their usage and scope. According to J. C. Charlesworth, we must differentiate ‘between an approach as a method and an approach as an objective’.10 Some approaches…
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Analysis of Recent Studies
While the classical and traditional political studies focused on universal principles and ideals, and legal–institutional arrangements, a new stream of studies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focused more on the processes—both formal and informal, which influence and condition the working of political institutions and decision-making in the political arena. An important development…
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Analysis of Traditional Studies
In the traditional approach, the main focus is on exploring the ideals and principles of organizing society, and defining the relationship of the individual and the State in terms of political and public relationships. Plato’s The Republic explores the principles of an ideal State, virtues of the philosopher king, principles of justice and education, and so on. Aristotle’s Politics seeks…
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Introduction
The study of politics is inseparable from the debate on what constitutes the realm of the ‘political’. One may take the position that whatever goes into deciding the share of each human being out of everything human society as a whole owns, produces and possesses—both in terms of the material and the moral—relates to the…
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Political Theory
The study of political science often involves difficult and philosophical topics. The Saylor Introduction to Political Science reading you read at the beginning of this unit explained that political theory involves the study of politics from a philosophical perspective. Political theory “addresses such issues as the nature of political authority, the relationship of the state…
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Is Political Science a Science?
This handout is designed to teach you how to conduct original political science research. While you won’t be asked to write a research paper, this handout provides important information on the “scientific” approach used by political scientists. Pay particularly close attention to the section that answers the question “what is scientific about political science?”If you…
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What Does Political Science Study?
Read section 17.1. As we just read in the previous article, to study politics is to “study power – who gets what, and how”. This section explains that power can be conceptualized both in terms of “domination” and “collective capacity”. In other words, “power” can refer to the ability to get someone to do something…
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What Is Political Science?
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the field of political science, its cross-disciplinary connections, and the various fields and sub-fields of study within the discipline.
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Introduction
Our study of politics will begin with a review of the basic principles of politics and various perspectives on how we define politics and its domain. We will discuss the changing notion of politics over time and across cultures as we work towards a definition. This unit will lay the framework for the remaining five…
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QUANTUM COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE
We had mentioned earlier that quantum information is very different than classical information. We saw that while classical information is independent of its physical representation, quantum information cannot be read without disturbing the physical process encoding it. In addition, we mentioned that the Quantum No-Cloning Theorem prevents us from copying quantum information without errors. However,…