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Objective: Definition Scope Relation With Other Fields of Learning Functions Goals

Political science involves the systematic study of the state and government. It aims to understand the proper relationship between institutions and goals like equality, justice, and liberty. The scope of political science includes political theory, public law, and public administration. It seeks to discover principles for public affairs, study government operations, and provide models to benefit constitution-makers, legislators, and others. Key goals are to educate citizens, contribute to a liberal education, and promote knowledge and understanding of government.

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Objective: Definition Scope Relation With Other Fields of Learning Functions Goals

Political science involves the systematic study of the state and government. It aims to understand the proper relationship between institutions and goals like equality, justice, and liberty. The scope of political science includes political theory, public law, and public administration. It seeks to discover principles for public affairs, study government operations, and provide models to benefit constitution-makers, legislators, and others. Key goals are to educate citizens, contribute to a liberal education, and promote knowledge and understanding of government.

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OBJECTIVE

Definition Scope Relation with other fields of learning Functions Goals

What is PoliticalScience?
POLIS city; sovereign state SCIRE to know Involves the search for the proper relationship between institutional structures and desired ends such as equality, justice, and liberty (R.J. Jackson & D. Jackson, 1997) Systematic study of state and government (De Leon, 2011)
STATE a community of persons more or less numerous permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control
GOVERNMENT agency through which the state expresses its will

SCIENCE OF POLITICS
Has formal object Basic knowledge and understanding of the state and of the principles and ideals which underlie its organization and activities Primarily concerns with the association of human beings into the body politic Deals with relations among men & groups which are subject to control by the state

SCOPE
Political Theory relates to the origin, form,
behavior, and purposes of the state

Public Law organizations of government;


limitations of government authority; powers and duties of government offices and officers; obligations of state to another

Public Administration methods and techniques


used in actual management of state affairs

FUNCTIONS
Discover principles that should be adhered to in public affairs

Study the operations of the government


Findings and conclusions may be of use to constitutionmakers, legislators, executives and judges who need models or norms that can be applied to immediate situations Deals on issues with social welfare, economy, international cooperation, and matters that are of urgent concern to public officials and to private citizens

GOALS
EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP
equip us to discharge the obligations of democratic citizenship

ESSENTIAL PARTS OF LIBERAL EDUCATION


intelligent, responsible citizenship can save democracy; ignorance and negligence can lose it
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF GOVERNMENT

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