https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne Making Sense of Government and Politics pages 5-7 en-us 2016-10-15 02:02:22 UTC 2016-10-15 02:32:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891484 *All political behavior has a purpose (rationality principle) 
*Institutions structure politics (institution principle)
*All politics is collective action (collective-action principle)
*Political outcomes are the products of individual preferences and institutional procedures (policy principle)
*How we got here matters (history principle)]]> 2016-10-15 02:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891484 rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891632 Finding order in the chaos of politics is the job of a political scientist. They identify patterns and regularities in everyday political life. 
Motivated by 2 fundamental questions:
*"What do we deserve?'
*"Why?" ]]> 2016-10-15 02:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891632 rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891790 This question is an empirical (interested in identifying facts and patterns that are true in the world) enterprise. 
*What do voters decide when they enter the polling booth?
*What tactics lead to a successful campaign?
*What decisions do congressmen make about how to vote on bills? 
*What groups put the most pressure on the government and why?
*How does the media report and represent politics?
*What tools can a president use when dealing with Congress?
*How have courts intervened with regulating political life?
These are all examples of questions political scientists have to understand and be informed on. ]]> 2016-10-15 02:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130891790 rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892035 "Why?", is the fundamental question and concern of science. We need to know thing that are true about the world but we also need to know why they are true. This leads to a theory, which is constructed from basic principles. Understand these theories can help us navigate, observe, describe, and analyze politics. ]]> 2016-10-15 02:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892035 rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892131 Government is the term generally used to describe the formal political arrangements by which a land and its people are ruled. Can be as simple as a tribal council or as complex and the American government system. A government is composed of institutions and processes that strengthens their control over the land and citizens. ]]> 2016-10-15 02:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892131 rkkunka https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892227 *]]> 2016-10-15 02:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rkkunka/GovernmentChapterOne/wish/130892227