POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING

SCIENCE CULTURE, SOCIETY

AND POLITICS

PRESENTED BY
GROUP 6
 Introduction
ABOUT OUR TOPIC:

Meaning of Political

Science
Concept of Political

science
Ideas (key terms)
Proponents
And Importance of

Political Science
 Political science studies
governments, public
policies, and political
MEANING
of Political Science
behavior. It is a social
science that examines the Political science is divided into
United States as well as all several major subfields, including
(other countries) and American politics, comparative
politics, international relations,
regions of the world using
political economy, and political
both humanistic
philosophy. Most university political
perspectives and scientific
science departments encourage
skills. students to specialize or concentrate
in one of these subfields.
 POLITICAL SCIENCE

MAIN
CONCEPTS
 STATE:
Political unit with ultimate sovereignty
(i.e responsibility and right to conduct
its own affairs and state that rules over
a single nation.
NATION:
MAIN
A large group of people who
CONCEPT: recognize themselves as bound by
culture, society, and politics.
GOVERNMENT:

key part and the body of the state,

group of people with authority to act
on behalf of the state (Shively 2012)
 PUBLIC GOOD:

Something that benefits all

members of community
but no one can be
MORE
excluded from using it.
CONCEPTS: Autonomous state
Civil society
(shively 2012)


IDEAS
(key terms)
 KEY TERMS

Fields International

Issues Relations
Citizenship Political

Civil society Methodology

Democracy Freedom
Qualitative
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Science provides students with a thorough
understanding of the basic ideas and concepts
which inform the study and practice of political
science. In particular, their key role, as well as their
use and application, will be emphasised, thereby
demonstrating their relevance to the field of study
KEY TERMS
Liberty neo-liberalism
Equality neo-conservatism
Class social democracy
Gender environmentalism
Ideology
PROPONENTS
Niccolò Machiavelli.
Italian statesman and writer.

He is best known for his political treatise The

Prince (Il Principe), written about 1513. He has
often been called the father of modern political
philosophy and political science. For many years
he served as a senior official in the Florentine
Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and
military affairs.
Alexis de Tocqueville.
French historian and political writer.

He is best known for his works Democracy in

America (appearing in two volumes, 1835
and 1840) and The Old Regime and the
Revolution (1856). In both, he analysed the
improved living standards and social
conditions of individuals as well as their
relationship to the market and state in
Western societies.
István Bibó
political scientist and sociologist.

In that role, Bibó helped draft the new electoral

law and wrote a memoir criticizing the
expulsion of the Germans from Hungary. In
1946 he was appointed a professor of political
science at the University of Szeged, and a year
later he became an administrator for the
Institute for Eastern European Studies.
Hannah Arendt.
American political scientist

Arendt believed that the right to citizenship,

the right of a plurality of people "to act
together concerning things that are of equal
concern to each," is not only denied by
totalitarianism, as it is by every despotism, but
stands opposed to the principle that guides the
acts of destruction that characterize
totalitarian systems.
Robert A. Dahl
Dahl's original theory of polyarchal democracy is in his
1956 book A Preface to Democratic Theory. For Dahl,
democracy is a system that is "completely responsive to all
its citizens", and the closest to the democratic ideal any
country can come is polyarchy. In political science, the term
polyarchy (poly "many", arkhe "rule") was used by Robert
A. Dahl to describe a form of government in which power is
invested in multiple people. It takes the form of neither a
dictatorship nor a democracy.
Kenneth N. Waltz.
Kenneth Waltz's defensive realism only
considers global hegemony where there is
only one great power in the international
system. Under such conditions, the
international system is said to be unipolar
as there are no other 'poles' or states that
can balance the power of the hegemon.
Benedict Anderson.
Irish political scientist.

Benedict Anderson, in full Benedict

Richard O'Gorman Anderson, (born
August 26, 1936, Kunming, China—
died December 12/13, 2015, Batu,
Indonesia), Irish political scientist,
best known for his influential work on
the origins of nationalism.
 THE EVOLUTION OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Niccolò
Machiavelli
Alexis de
The Prince Tocqueville
Democracy in America
and The Old Regime
and the Revolution

István Bibó

Electoral
Law Hannah Arendt
The Origins of
Totalitarianism and
The Human
Condition
 THE EVOLUTION OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE

Robert A. Dahl
A Preface to
Democratic
Theory
Kenneth Waltz

Theory of
International
Politics
Benedict
Anderson
Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of
Nationalism
The importance of this topic
which is political science - it lies in
the fact that all of us live within
political systems and we are IMPORTANCE
affected by the changes in the of Political Science
global political economy.

Political scientist became valued

and important as they provide the
lens through which we can
understand the global political
economy.

1. TO UNDERSTAND THE INDIVIDUAL OR

CITIZEN RELATIONS TO STATE.

2. TO STUDY THE POLITICAL THOUGHTS AND

IDEAS OF THE GREAT POLITICAL THINKERS.
This provides information

3. TO UNDERSTAND THE CURRENT POLITICAL

about the structure and

PROBLEMS AND FIND SOLUTIONS.

functions of the state and

4. TO MAKE PEOPLE CONSCIOUS OF THEIR goverment. political science

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATION. helps to understand about

the organs of the goverment

5. TO ANALYSE POLITICAL PARTIES AND
PRESSURE GROUPS.
Thank You
for listening
 PRESENTED BY

GROUP 6
Miras, Allaiza Mae Gutierrez, Chynna
Chavez, Irene Joyce Ganibi, Guillbert
Zapanta, Dwight Naval, Dezzery Dhaze
Castillo, Elijah Ege, Shyra joyce
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