Lecture #1
Politics is 4 questions:
1. Will there be conflict or cooperation?
2. How are decisions made?
3. Who gets what?
4. How and why are people coerced?
, Lecture #2
Political scientists’ interest in general questions compels them to do 4 things:
1. Frame questions
2. Define concepts
3. Specify their theoretical arguments
4. Empirically illustrate and test their arguments
Politics is 4 questions:
1. Will there be conflict or cooperation?
2. How are decisions made?
3. Who gets what?
4. How and why are people coerced?
, Lecture #2
Political scientists’ interest in general questions compels them to do 4 things:
1. Frame questions
2. Define concepts
3. Specify their theoretical arguments
4. Empirically illustrate and test their arguments