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Political Science

Political science is best defined in comparison to political philosophy: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the latter.

Comparative Politics

This field's methods are essentially decision trees. The body of quantitative data is poor. Analysis rests on identifying novel partitions that better predict or describe outcomes, and then re-testing hypotheses after a few decades have generated new data.

Public Choice and Social Choice Theory

Public choice and social choice are highly interconnected. In general, public choice seeks to be strictly positive, while social choice leans into philosophy and normative study. Like, 'given a voting system, which agent has most control' vs. 'what is the most fair voting system'. But the theorists fundamentally speak the same language, and it's more coherent to group them together by field of study.

Political Economy

International Relations

Miscellany

Reading Notes

Note: reading notes for the above topics are listed on the respective pages, not here.

Data Notes

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