Politics and Knowledge: James Danziger Chapter One
Politics and Knowledge: James Danziger Chapter One
CHAPTER ONE
a- ignore them
b- accept them
c- reject them
d- try to evaluate them
1- Authority
3. Science
3- Operationalizing key concepts: This means that you specify exactly what
each concept means and how they might be measured. (what is meant by
“voting” and “democracy”)
1976 1996
man women man
women
voted (%) 77 67 53 56
not voted (%) 23 33 47 44
2- International Relations
3- Political theory or Political Philosophy focuses on the ideas and debates
dealing with important Political questions. (what is political justice? Equality?
democracy? Human rights?)
First criticism: Political Science is not a real science in comparison to "natural" and
applied sciences (e.g. chemistry, physics)
- Rules of interpretation, which indicate the methods that are used to understand
whether the explanations and predictions provided by the theory are appropriate or
inappropriate.