Category: Political Science Essay Examples
See our collection of political science essay examples. These example essays are to help you understanding how to write a political science essay. Political science is not merely an academic discipline, and political scientists do not just study the anatomy of politics. Political science is renewed with every political administration and with every major political event and with every political leader. Influential political leaders construct their own -isms (Fidelism/Castroism, Maoism, Gandhism, Reaganism, and so on) so that the political philosophies and ideologies that undergird the discipline have to be reinvented constantly. Also, see our list of political science essay topics to find the one that interests you.
Guild socialism is a political movement advocating for workers to control industry through a system of national guilds that operate in an implied contractual relationship with society and consumers. A. R. Orage, Arthur J. Penty, Samuel Hobson, and ultimately G. D. H. Cole are all associated with guild …
The gulf states are the countries in the Middle East that border the Persian or Arabian Gulf: Iran, Oman (the small exclave of Musandam), the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq (the Tigris-Euphrates river delta: the Shatt-el-Arab). The name of the gulf is …
Luther Halsey Gulick III (1892–1993) is considered to be one of the most important leaders in the practice and study of public administration. Deemed the “dean of public administration,” Gulick promoted the creation of several institutions that furthered both the professionalism of public managers and the study of …
Gunboat diplomacy refers to the practice of making threats against another state by the visible demonstration of warships. The term is associated with the early twentieth century use of small coastal or river warships to enforce the interests of the great powers in places such as Latin America …
Originating in England at least eight hundred years ago, habeas corpus is an ancient common-law concept strongly connected to the Magna Carta. The name denotes a court order that commands those holding another in custody to produce that individual before the court, so that the court can assess …
Hamiltonianism describes the public philosophy associated with Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury. As President George Washington began to distance himself from other key advisers, such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton came to play the role of “prime minister” to Washington. Hamilton …
James Harrington (1611–1677) was an English political writer most famous for The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656), considered one of the most systematic treatises to emerge from the English republican movement. There is little reliable biographical information about Harrington’s early life; he provided loans to Parliament in the early …
Louis Hartz (1919–1986), an American political scientist, had a major influence on how scholars of the 1950s and 1960s viewed American political culture. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on April 7, 1919, Hartz was the third son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where his …
Though hate speech comes in many forms, liberal democracies in the earlier twentieth century concerned themselves primarily with speech that vilified or criticized individuals and groups based on the categories of race, nationality, and religion. In the 1920s, the term race hate was the preferred label for such …
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992) is best known as a leader of the Austrian school of economics, but he also made important contributions to political theory. He was a staunch advocate of the free market, and from that position he developed his larger notion of spontaneous order—the idea …
A health care policy is a type of social welfare policy. Like other social policies, it aims to improve the general welfare of citizens. A health care policy also distinctly aims to promote the physical and mental well-being of individuals in society. Health care policies can operate in …
Gunnar Heckscher (1909–1987) was a major right-wing political scientist in Sweden during the period between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). The son of economic historian Eli Heckscher, he was born in Danderyd in Stockholm County. He studied at Uppsala University and received his PhD …
The Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) theorem is the cumulative work of two Swedish economists, Eli F. Heckscher and his student Bertil Ohlin, first published in the early twentieth century. The theorem revolutionized economic explanations of international trade, replacing classical accounts found in the work of Robert Torrens and David Ricardo. …
Andras Hegedus (1922–1999) was a Hungarian politician who served as his country’s youngest prime minister from 1955 to 1956. He signed the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact as well as the document requesting the help of Soviet troops to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He later criticized …
Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1770. He was educated at the Tübinger Stift, where he became close friends with Friedrich Schelling and Friedrich Hölderlin. During their time in Tübingen, they were inspired by the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789–1799) but …
The term hegemony means domination with consent. From the Greek hegemonia, it denotes leadership of an alliance by a single leader, or hegemon. Although ancient hegemons tended to possess great power, their allies conceded them leading roles due to other qualities, such as skill and virtue, as well …
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a highly influential German philosopher and thinker. With all that has been written by and about Heidegger, there is much that remains an enigma about both the man and his philosophy. Educated as a Catholic with the hope of going into the priesthood, he …
Alexander I. Herzen (1812–1870) was a Russian writer, philosopher, and political activist. Considered by some to be the “father of Russian socialism,” Herzen spent much of his life in exile, agitating for political change in tsarist and autocratic Russia. Born in Moscow as the illegitimate son of a …
Heuristics (or heuristic algorithms) are problem-solving procedures that, while may yield acceptable results in practice, provide no guarantees of yielding “good” solutions in general. Specifically, an algorithm is called heuristic if it cannot be shown to yield a result to be correct, correct within a known error of …
Hierarchical models, also commonly called multilevel models, hierarchical linear modeling, nested models, and multilevel analyses, are structures that consist of multiple units of analysis, one “nested” within the other. This type of model is useful in political science because often the effect of an independent variable on the …
