Political Sciences

Politcal scientists use quantitative and qualitative data to compare and make inferences generalizations or arguements:

evaluation of politcal systems( democratic or authoritarian )

comparison of policy making ( presidential vs parliamentary )

Interactions btween insitutions of gov ( executive legislative and judicial)

voting/political participation of different ethnic and religous groups

Quantitative/Empirical:

data from observation statistcs ect..

Qualitative/Normative:

value/opinions statemnts

speeches, foundational, docs, political cartoons

GDP market valkue of good and services poroduced in a year

GDP per capita size of economy in comparisn with the population size

The human development index (HDI) published by the UN:

A summary measure of average achievment in key dimensions of human development including statistcs about:

Life expectancy, education and income.

The perfect score on the HDI is 1.0 = highest possible achievements in countries human development.

Freedom House Scores:

Rank countries based on scores for politcal rights (0-40) and civil liberties (0-60)

0 is least freedom.

100 is most free.

Governmental transparency

ability of citizens to access info about a gov policy making and implentation to hold official accountable. Increased transparency is indicator of consolidated and stable democracies. Increased transparency can lead to believeing gov corruption.

Corruption Pereception Index scores reported by Transparency internation, a gov organization thhat assesses and ranks pereception of corruption in different countries.

0 - more corrupt

100 - less corrupt

The Fragile States index (FSI)

assesses and ranks based on potential to weaken due to conflicts and war.

0 - less fragile

120 - most fragile

Arguments and conclutions in polic