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Political Science Research Questions

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Political Science Research Questions

#1. Pick another subject in which you have taken a course and heard mention of scientific

theories. How is political science similar to and different from that subject?

I have chosen the topic of Sociology, from which I may draw comparisons between the

subject disciplines of Sociology and Political Science. Various ideas, including scientific

theories, are researched in sociology and political science. Both academic disciplines are

connected and comparable in that they examine human society and how human relationships

with social structures and politics affect the general functioning of society. Furthermore, both fall

under the heading of human sciences and employ certain overlapping social science ideas.

Sociology and political science are inextricably linked since they deal with human society

and its growth. However, their areas of interest differ. While sociology is concerned with the

growth, structure, and function of human society, political science is focused on the state and its

systems of administration and the scientific examination of political action and conduct. This is

the distinction between politics and sociology and how political changes may affect society.

#2. Think about something in the political world that you would like to better understand.

Try to think about this as a variable with high and low values. This is your dependent

variable at the conceptual level. Now think about what might cause the values of your

dependent variable to be higher or lower. Try to phrase this in terms of an independent

variable, also at the conceptual level. Write a paragraph about these two variables and

your theory about why they are causally related to each other.

In the political sphere, I would wish to comprehend better the true meaning and

application of Capitalism's Political Economy. Political capitalism is a social and economic

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system in which the political and financial elites work together for mutual advantage. Capitalism,

too, may be thought of as two additional systems comprised of several dependent and

independent factors. Markets and state actors are the two significant variables in the economics

and politics of capitalism. In contrast, political authority is an autonomous variable that can

influence the political economy of capitalism. As a predictor variable, the market competes to

obtain capital and labor and service its clients.

The second variable comprises state agents who implement the laws and regulations,

such as specialist regulators that monitor conduct in specific businesses such as food and

pharmaceuticals or transportation, and individuals who safeguard society resources such as the

physical surroundings or workplace safety. Political power, often with specific tasks such as

executive, legislative, and federal courts, is the dependent variable, which may stand on its own.

The social market economy enables the government to meet fundamental human needs to

increase wealth and quality of life. The government capitalist system is one in which the

government fully regulates some enterprises with whom it has close ties while supporting free

trade with others. The above explanations depict the connection between the three variables.

#3.Identify something in the world that you would like to see happen (normative). What

scientific knowledge (empirical and causal) would help you to pursue this goal?

I believe that the government should have the authority to take the life of its people as

punishment for a law-breaking. To achieve this aim, I would want to employ empirical and

scientific information. Normative theory can help guide empirical research, whereas empirical

research can help normative theory. Increasing the severity of punishment has little impact on

crime prevention. Policies and laws aimed at preventing crime by increasing the magnitude of

penance are ineffective, partly since criminals are ignorant of the punishments for specific
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crimes. Everyone who commits a major crime, according to criminal justice theory, deserves

punishment by a court of law. The severity of the penalty should be proportionate to the extent of

the damages caused by crime committed.

#4.The 1992 US presidential election, in which challenger Bill Clinton defeated incumbent

George H. W. Bush, has often been remembered as the “It’s the economy, stupid,” election.

How can we restate the causal statement that embodies this conventional wisdom –

“Clinton beat Bush because the economy had performed poorly” – into a more general

theoretical statement?

Politics in the US are always economy-dependent. Political dependence develops when

donors exert undue influence on the receiving country's governance. The country's frugality is

supported by huge natural capitals, well infrastructures, and high production. It has the second

utmost total-estimated natural resource value, evaluated at US$ 44.98 trillion in 2019; however,

estimates vary. Political economy is concerned with how political affairs influences the economy

in addition to how the economy effects politics. Governments tries to stimulate the frugality

before elections to produce so-called political business cycles, which cause ebbs and flows of

economic growth around elections.

#5.Identify at least two causal claims that have been made in the preceding statement. For

each causal claim, identify which variable is the independent variable and which variable is

the dependent variable. These causal claims should be stated in terms of one of the

following types of phrases in which the first blank should be filled by the independent

variable and the second blank should be filled by the dependent variable:

The available variables in the statement are economic success, country and the people.
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Caring about the publics’ political rights in a country causes economic success in a country

Higher Understanding of Political economics causes lower how public policy affects society

Higher economic success in a country causes higher caring about the publics’ political rights in

the country