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Answer to the Question number 1

For all of the aforementioned major factors, we may conclude that political scientists
must follow the same procedures as natural scientists in order to develop their
hypotheses. As a result, political science is a scientific discipline that may be
defended. Politics is a communal decision-making process aimed at improving and
strengthening a community's or nation's unity and development, whereas power is
defined as the ability to accomplish something in a specific way. Power and politics
are inextricably linked.

The relationship between power and politics is viewed differently by different people.
A political entity's ability to make interactive decisions that can change a society's
culture and structure is characterized as political power. The two sides of the same
coin are politics and power. Politics is nothing more than the study of power, and the
use of power is a political action in and of itself. Politics is the study of the state's
power, as well as who owns it and how it is distributed. Politics is where power is
concentrated. Without power, politics is like a guy without a suit.

How political scientists and natural scientists debate over the assertion that political
science is a science:

The question of whether political science is a science is hotly debated. Political


scientists, like any scientists, must follow certain guidelines. They must create a
hypothesis, which is a statement that proposes a specific relationship between two
phenomena. They also measure and statistically change their data to test hypotheses.

But there's a catch: many parts of politics aren't measurable. This is due to the fact
that many facets of politics are just too complex to be quantified. Political scientists
acknowledge to relying on accurate data. Political science, they maintain, is an
empirical subject that collects both quantitative and qualitative data. On the basis of
repeated trends, political scientists "generalize." When generalizations get more
specific, they are referred to as "theories." Hypotheses are occasionally referred to as
"laws" when they become well-established. Political science can become a "science"
if approached this way. Answering political questions scientifically often includes the
following steps:

Developing hypotheses,
Operationalizing concepts,
Identifying independent and dependent variables,
Clarifying measurement criteria,
Distinguishing between causation and correlation
Developing scientific theories

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