Was ist Politikwissenschaft?

“science n. 1. the systemic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment” (Waite 2012, 648).

“Who gets what, when, how?” (Lasswell 1951 [1936]).

Politische Macht ist “merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another” (Marx und Engels 1992 [1848], 59).

Politik als Prozess, “by which groups representing divergent interests and values make collective decisions” (Garner 2009, 2).

“I define politics as involving attempts to organize human groups to determine internal rules and, externally, to compete and cooperate with other organized groups; and reactions to such attempts” (Keohane 2009, 359).

Dimensionen

polity – politics – policy

Wissenschaftsverständnis

normativ vs. empirisch analytisch

Theorienbildung und Anwendung

deduktiv vs. induktiv

wissenschaftstheoretisch

Ontologie und Epistemologie