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Political Science Is The Scientific Study of

Political science is the scientific study of politics, focusing on governance systems, political activities, and associated laws. It encompasses subdisciplines such as comparative politics, international relations, and political theory, while also drawing from various fields like economics and sociology. The discipline employs diverse methodologies, including positivism and rational choice theory, utilizing both primary and secondary sources for research.

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Political Science Is The Scientific Study of

Political science is the scientific study of politics, focusing on governance systems, political activities, and associated laws. It encompasses subdisciplines such as comparative politics, international relations, and political theory, while also drawing from various fields like economics and sociology. The discipline employs diverse methodologies, including positivism and rational choice theory, utilizing both primary and secondary sources for research.

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Political science 

is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems


of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior,
and associated constitutions and laws.[1]
Modern political science can generally be divided into the three subdisciplines of comparative
politics, international relations, and political theory.[2] Other notable subdisciplines are public policy
and administration, domestic politics and government (often studied within comparative
politics), political economy, and political methodology.[3] Furthermore, political science is related to,
and draws upon, the fields of economics, law, sociology, history, philosophy, human
geography, journalism, political anthropology, psychology, and social policy.
Political science is methodologically diverse and appropriates many methods originating
in psychology, social research, and cognitive neuroscience. Approaches
include positivism, interpretivism, rational choice theory, behaviouralism, structuralism, post-
structuralism, realism, institutionalism, and pluralism. Political science, as one of the social sciences,
uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources, such as
historical documents and official records, secondary sources, such as scholarly journal
articles, survey research, statistical analysis, case studies, experimental research, and model
building.

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