Political+Science

**WHAT IS POLITICAL SCIENCE?**
Political Science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political science students can gain a versatile set of skills that can be applied in a wide range of exciting careers in federal, state and local governments; law; business; international organizations; nonprofit associations and organizations; campaign management and polling; journalism; precollegiate education; electoral politics; research and university and college teaching. There are many subcategories of political science which include: Behavioralism, Election Law, Foreign Policy, Global Politics.

**SUB-CATEGORIES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. **
Behavioralism is an approach in political science which seeks to provide an objective, quantified approach to explaining and predicting political behavior. Election Law is a discipline falling at the juncture of constitutional law and political science which researches "the politics of law and the law of politics.” Foregin Policy is a set of goals outlining how the country will interact with other countries economically, politically, socially and militarily, and to a lesser extent, how the country will interact with non-state actors. Global Politics is the discipline that studies the political and economical patterns of the world. 

**HISTORY.**
Aristotle and Plato are the original founders of Political Science, but since the beginning of politics people have been analyzing and studying politics, its practice, and government. In India political science can be traced back to 350 B.C. During the height of the Roman Empire Plutarch and Livy documented the Roman government. Christianity also brought new ways of thinking about politics and political action. Other important people are Chanayka, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Other social sciences that preceded Political Science are moral philosophy, polictical philosophy, political economy, and political economy. In 1903 American Political Science Association was formed, and in 1906 the American Political Science review was formed to distinguish the study of politics from economics. 

**SCHOOLING.**
Many universities and colleges offer B.A. programs in political science, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science is necessary for a career in Political Science. In high school and in college, classes over political science (many political scientists teach at universities) are classes you should be taking if you would like a career in political science in the future. These schools have political science departments: -Cornell University- [|www.cornell.edu] -Duke University- [|www.duke.edu] -Emory University- [|www.emory.edu] -John Hopkins University- [|www.jhu.edu] -MIT- [|www.web.mit.edu] -Penn State- [|www.psu.edu] -Rice University- [|www.rice.edu] -University of Texas at Austin- [|www.utexas.edu] -University of Missouri Kansas City- [|www.umkc.edu] -Yale- [|www.yale.edu]

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