Positive political theory, the Glossary
Positive political theory (PPT), explanatory political theory, or formal theory is the study of politics using formal methods such as social choice theory, game theory, and statistical analysis.[1]
Table of Contents
15 relations: Annual Review of Political Science, Electoral system, Elite theory, Game theory, Iron law of oligarchy, Politics, Public choice, Rational choice theory, Rochester school, Social choice theory, Southern California Law Review, Statistical inference, The Georgetown Law Journal, The Theory of Political Coalitions, William H. Riker.
- Administrative theory
- Subfields of political science
Annual Review of Political Science
Annual Review of Political Science is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Annual Reviews, covering significant developments in the field of political science, including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.
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Electoral system
An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Positive political theory and electoral system are Administrative theory.
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Elite theory
In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state that seeks to describe and explain power relationships in society.
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Game theory
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.
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Iron law of oligarchy
The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book Political Parties.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
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Public choice
Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science."Gordon Tullock, 1987 2008, "public choice," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
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Rational choice theory
Rational choice theory refers to a set of guidelines that help understand economic and social behaviour.
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Rochester school
The Rochester school was an influential movement in the Political Science Department at the University of Rochester.
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Social choice theory is the branch of welfare economics which studies processes of collective decision-making. Positive political theory and Social choice theory are Administrative theory.
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Southern California Law Review
The Southern California Law Review is the flagship scholarly journal of the USC Gould School of Law.
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Statistical inference
Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability.
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The Georgetown Law Journal
The Georgetown Law Journal is a student-edited scholarly journal published at Georgetown University Law Center.
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The Theory of Political Coalitions
The Theory of Political Coalitions is an academic book on positive political theory written by the American political scientist William H. Riker and published in 1962.
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William H. Riker
William Harrison Riker (September 22, 1920 – June 26, 1993) was an American political scientist who is prominent for applying game theory and mathematics to political science.
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See also
Administrative theory
- Accountant general
- Accounting
- Base erosion and profit shifting
- Benefit corporation
- Bicameralism
- Bureaucratic drift
- Business cluster
- Business valuation
- Collective action problem
- Convergence of accounting standards
- Corporate development
- Corporate social responsibility
- Creating shared value
- Dual loyalty
- Electoral system
- Equivalence number method
- Feminist political theory
- Financial close management
- ISO standards
- Individual ministerial responsibility
- Innovation management
- Issue ownership
- Legal norm
- Legal origins theory
- Nursing theory
- Office administration
- Onboarding
- Positive political theory
- Rational agent
- Red tape
- Resource room
- Shared services center
- Shareholder committee
- Social choice theory
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social science
- Unitary executive theory
Subfields of political science
- American political development
- American politics (political science)
- Behavioralism
- China watcher
- Comparative politics
- Constitutions
- Cross-cultural studies
- Deterrence theory
- Eightfold path (policy analysis)
- Election law
- Election science
- Foreign policy
- Gender and politics
- Global politics
- Historical institutionalism
- International relations
- Kremlinology
- Media studies
- Parliamentary informatics
- Peace and conflict studies
- Persistence studies
- Philosophy, politics and economics
- Political anthropology
- Political communication
- Political culture
- Political economy
- Political geography
- Political law
- Political psychology
- Political socialization
- Political sociology
- Positive political theory
- Post-Soviet studies
- Post-behavioralism
- Prebendalism
- Psephology
- Public administration
- Public administration theory
- Public law
- Rational choice institutionalism
- Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration
- Security sector governance and reform
- Social engineering (political science)
- Systematic ideology
- Transitology
- Vaticanology
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_political_theory
Also known as Explanatory political theory, Explanitory Poltical Theory, Formal theory (political science).