#political-science

#political-science

If Plato was the first Western political philosopher, Aristotle was the first political scientist in today's sense. Plato's Republic, for instance, envisages an unworldly political utopia. But in Politics, Aristotle investigates a comprehensive range of political forms and regimes, down to their unglamorous, operational details. To research the book, Aristotle sent pupils at the Lyceum, his school in Athens, to many Greek city-states to record their constitutions, forming a kind of empirical data set.

"This isn't negotiation. It's authoritarian extortion," emphasized by Ryan Enos and Steve Levitsky, reflecting the coercive nature of political tactics used against universities.

"If we refuse to fight for our democracy, then we're doomed to lose it," Hochul told Rachel Maddow. "We don't want our democracy lost. And that's why I'm sick and tired of fighting these battles with my hands tied behind my back because we have an independent redistricting commission."

The founding of the United States was a secessionist movement, seeking to withdraw from British governance rather than engaging in revolution as defined today.

Berg examines the historical roots of conspiracy theories in Byzantium, revealing how notions of a ‘deep state’ resonate through time, reflecting political power struggles.

The power of this feedback loop is one of the greatest insights of modern empirical psychology. It underlies stereotype research, mindset research, most of social psychology, and even the most-used form of talk therapy in the world (CBT).

My father studied the Ukrainian artists, activists and workers who defied the Soviet regime and thus faced surveillance and imprisonment. Their resilience offers relevant lessons today.

A small study indicated that receiving the COVID-19 booster in the same arm as the first dose resulted in a faster and more effective immune response.