POL-SCIE

• POLITICS - comes from greek word "polis" means city in ancient greece.
• Aristotle - traced from him when he wrote the first systematic work focused on political affairs known as "politics" that named him the "father of political science"
• Power - for the government to rule the people
• Government - the agency that is responsible for peace and order
• Niccolo Machiavelli - established the book of "the prince" a handbook for rulers in the art of government
• Teodoro M. Kalaw - the 1st Filipino student of politics to define pol-scie adopting the Malcolm position
• SUB-DISCIPLINES OF POL-SCIE

  Political theory - address the variance of its implementation in societies.
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  2. Comparative politics - aims to provide context to the differences in government. Examines the parallelism and divergence of political systems.
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  3. International relations - wider margin of the impacts of globalization and climate change such as terrorism, etc. of non-western territories
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  4. Political behavior - covers the attitudes, actions and knowledge of an individual to political variables such as behavior of politicians
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  5. Public policy - inquires on the types of governmental policies and motivations for their enactment or implementation