Exam 3: Political Science: Components, Tasks, and Controversies

Political empiricism is concerned with ______.

According to the authors, the three major components of political science are ______.

A postbehavioral approach to political science inspired by economics is ______.

A postbehavioral model for understanding politics based on economics is called _______________________.

Many famous political thinkers have been concerned with developing theory that integrates political values, social scientific knowledge, and wise action. Which of the following individuals developed an integrated prescriptive theory concerned with the importance of making republican values central to his thinking in a large diverse country?

The ethical component of political science has as its main focus ______.

When a political scientist's research is most concerned with what ought to be, it is a reflection of which component of the discipline?

What position do you take on the continuing controversy in political science as to whether there really can be a "science" of politics? In this essay, be sure to address the issues raised by philosophy of positivism.

The title of Harold Lasswell's influential book defining politics is ______.

The authors argue that, to do justice to their discipline, political scientists need to address four concerns: (1) concern for the good life and the underlying ethical principles of politics; (2) concern for a science of politics and an understanding of significant empirical phenomena; (3) concern for political wisdom in the arena of citizenship and public policy; and, because these concerns are interrelated, (4) concern for the integration of ethics, social science, and statesmanship. In a reasoned essay, indicate why you agree or disagree that students of political science should address all of these concerns.

The concept of _____________________________ can be used to help define the well-being of a political community and is useful as an integrating concept for the discipline of political science.

A philosophy that holds that human beings can know only that which is based on observable, scientific facts and data derived from experience is called ______.

Three of the following constitute what David Easton called the "intellectual foundation stones" of behavioralism. Which of the four is not a foundation stone?

Who argued that the quest for the "best political order" must be central to political science?

The gathering and analysis of voting results in an election to determine why citizens voted for particular candidates would be an example of which task of political science?

When political scientists are focusing on what can be, that is, when they are exercising wise judgment about the practical tasks of politics, they are concerning themselves with the ______________ component of political science.

The four basic subfields of political science are ______.

The use of scientific method requires the generation of data that are as objective and value free as possible. Discuss several of these types of data now used by political scientists.

Political scientists making recommendations on what actions by leaders, citizens, or other actors are right or wrong are focusing on the __________________ component of political science.

An early leader of the post-World War II behavioral revolution in political science was ______.