Theories Of Political Science

Political science and political philosophy are two unique philosophies of different eras that review and study the political behaviors and values. Political philosophy is regarded as an ancient concept which followed back to Socrates who encouraged partisanship in politics. Moving to the political science, it is a modern study of political behavior that supports the non-partisanship. Political scientists are not interested in political argues like political philosophers, because they want to deal with facts as they believe. But such debates will not have solutions.

What is polarization? Throughout the course of American history, arguments occurred regarding what role the government should play in the democratic process. Since the formation of two major political parties during the 1800s, political polarization began to affect how the government functions. Scholars use polarization as a guide to determine just how divided America truly is.

By its definition Democratization is a change in political regime within a sovereign state from no democracy to democracy. Many scholars of political science have tried to determine the causes of a successful process of democratization. In fact, while democratization is a process in itself, it is linked inevitably to the development of one country, In terms of institutional, economic, political but also the social aspect. The collapse of the communist regime in 1990 and the establishment of political pluralism marked the beginning of a new era for Eastern Europe and for Albania too.

John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu were political philosophers that debated the question of who was best fit to control the government. Locke and Montesquieu shared similar political beliefs such as natural rights and the separation of government powers. However, both philosophers did, in fact, have their personal views that helped them accomplish important achievements. John Locke published “Two Treatises of Government” and “ An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” which present a detail philosophy of the mind and thought. Locke’s “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” lays out his philosophical project.

The term “ideology” when it was coined in the eighteenth century (ideologie), initially meant “the scientific study of ideas.” Over the passage of time spanning across the last two centuries, however, the term has shifted considerably. Instead of denoting the systematic and logical study of ideas, “ideology” has come to refer to a set of ideas that tries to connect thought with action of the larger group of populace where it is prevalent. That is, ideologies are defined by and attempt to contour how people think—and consequently how they act. Being interdependent, in turn then, the way society conducts itself lends shades to defining the ideology of that era and space, both thereby becoming a blended and intertwined result of each other’s mutual influence.

1.6 CDA and Political Discourse Analysis There are many approaches for the analysis of Political Discourse integrated with Critical Discourse Analysis. Wodak (1995) postulates a major influence in this study by summarizing the constitutive principles of CDA as follows: 1- Political commitment: the aim of CDA is to uncover power-abuse and inequality. CDA is being criticised for being political only because its political values are explicit.

The question about the political struggle should be addressed either by the political force or persuasion is always discussed by many scholars from different disciplines. This essay argues that the political power should be properly understood as a matter that involving both force and persuasion; the political power is composed of soft power and hard power. The essay attempt to explore the relationship between the force and persuasion in the political struggle from the perspective of international relation. In the first part, the essay will attempt to form a theoretical framework based on the theory of Machiavelli, and Locke; the essay will

Political tensions prevail in Athens due to invasions, but as Aristotle’s philosophy began to weaken, there was a fusion of cultures in the area and philosophies were being dispersed into various places, thus the emergence of various schools of thought. New philosophical groups and movements emerged in aim to achieve Ataraxia or the state of tranquility, freedom, peace and a state of mind. They introduce philosophy as a way of life and as a way to achieve a specific human condition for

In this small paper I am going to focus on the two crucial contributions of John Rawls to the field of political philosophy, namely, his theories of justice and political liberalism, as those were presented in Justice as Fairness (later restatement of his fundamental Theory of Justice) and Political Liberalism. I will start with several major assumptions that guide Rawls ' thinking and should, in my opinion, guide any scrutiny of his ideas. First of all, he attempts to develop a political conception, that is, a framework for dealing not with all of the issues concerning a given society, but with essentially political affairs. Although he does not provide a theory of the political as such (in a sense of Schmitt), it is possible to see to what

Moreover, by sharing similar philosophical ideas, it enables to use Hegel’s idea of Geist as an answer to Hume’s secret power, that Hume could not comprehend. These two philosophers shared great similarities in their philosophy, allowing our understanding of modern philosophy; nevertheless, it is crucial to realize that there may be more overlapping or even conflicting philosophical ideas of different philosophers that yield various outcomes than the one presented by this paper. Finding overlapping ideas of different philosophers enhance deeper understanding of philosophy and may eventually strengthen one

After the Revolutionary War, the rewriting and ratification of the Constitution, and the inauguration of George Washington as president, the nation still had many political issues to deal with, however different groups in the government had very different opinions and strategies about how to solve them and how the new government should be run. This lead to the development of political parties. The two first parties were the Federalists and the Democrat-Republicans. One way the original political parties in America differed was their thoughts on whether or not our government should be “ruled by the wealthy class” versus “ruled by the people”. The Federalists party, founded by Alexander Hamilton, believed that the government should be ruled by the wealthy.

This cannot really be observed or proved like science can. Which is why in today’s modern science the two are completely separate. God cannot be empirically observed and the existence of things in nature cannot be tested scientifically. In the time of the Enlightenment, this dispute of science and theology and what was right started.

The need to understand more about what inspires a voter before conjecturing his or hers patriotism is greatly required. One may held an election just to gain something at someone else’s expense. As Dr. Johnson one said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” The waving of the flag can be an external sign towards patriotism, however, we cannot cheapen the expression by ever proposing that it is anything more than a

“A common law Constitution is a "living" Constitution, but it is also one that can protect fundamental principles against transient public opinion, and it is not one that judges (or anyone else) can simply manipulate to fit their own ideas”( Strauss, David A). With today’s society and the way things are its hard to say whether or not this document is living or not. I still believe the Constitution is a non-living document. In another article I read, Scalia states that “that issues such as abortion and homosexuality do not appear in the Constitution makes them matters for which citizens and states can enact laws”( Patel, Ushma). Basically what he’s saying is that issues that are not supported in the Constitution make it not a living document.