Module 5 Flashcards
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comes from two Greek words: polis and scire. Polis refers to the city-state in ancient Greece. Scire means “to know.”
Political Science
Subdiscipline of Political Science
Political Theory Comparative Politics International Relations Political Behaviour Public Policy Public Administration
this field covers the attitudes, knowledge, and actions of an individual in response to political variables such as policies created by the government, behavior of politicians, and general political environment.
Political Behavior
examines the contemporary application of political concepts such as human rights, equal`ity, peace, and justice.
Political theory
Combining the two meanings, political science aims to know the activities within the state. Such activities includes human interaction and conflict, human and state relations, and power distribution.
Political Science
the study of estate-to-estate relations and the wider margin of the impacts of globalization and climate change such as terrorism, piracy, and democratization of non-Western territories. This field also covers the interaction between estate and non-estate global actors such as international organizations and human groups.
International Relations
this fields inquires on the type of governmental policies and the underlying motivations for their enactment and implementation.
Public Policy
pervades all of its subdiscipline as they all address contemporary issues on politics, ethics, and governance.
Applied orientation
Five Primary Variables of David Easton’s Political Model (1957)
Environment Input Political System Output Feedback
as it uses the frameworks of other social science discipline to provide context to a political phenomenon.
Interdisciplinary orientation
this field covers the attitudes, knowledge, and actions of an individual in response to political variables such as policies created by the government, behavior of politicians, and general political environment.
Political Behavior
it aims to provide context to the differences in government and political systems. It examines the parallelism and divergence of political systems to provide analyses on the factors that make them fail.
Comparative Politics
examines the contemporary application of political concepts such as human rights, equal`ity, peace, and justice.
Political theory
it is the opinions and responses made by the affected sectors.
Feedback
acts like black box through which every form of demand is sifted and decided upon. Based on the nature of the political system, the demands are either acted upon or neglected.
Political system
the mechanisms within the system that would allow for such demands to be facilitated.
Support
is the perceived needs of the population that could better their lives.
Demands
consist of the historical, social and economic conditions of the society that affects the types of policies accepted and declined by the electorate.
Environment
the decision of the government toward an input. This includes policies, rules, laws, regulations and projects.
output
this refers to the forms of political events or products that are needed by society from its government.
Inputs
Teaching Politics: Political System (Easton)
David Easton’s Political Model (1957)
Diagram
Politics is the interaction between the civil society and the government in the activity of governance.
Alfred Boyer
Politics is the exercise of power within a state.
Max Weber
Politics is the authoritative allocation of scarce values.
David Easton
