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.
Born in 1689 to a noble family, French political philosopher Charles-Louis Secondat (1689–1755), Baron de la Brede and de Montesquieu, was educated mainly in the law. He occupied a hereditary seat on the parliament of Bordeaux while also pursuing scientific research. He achieved enormous literary success with Persian …
Barrington Moore, Jr. (1913–2005) was an American political sociologist who spent most of his career as senior research fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. Moore’s interests and intellectual ambitions covered many areas beyond the Russian case, although that was where his studies began. His Soviet Politics …
Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English statesman and humanist. He was educated at St. Anthony’s School in London, after which he entered into the service of the household of Cardinal John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop had him pursue studies at the University of Oxford, presumably …
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1904–1980) was a German political scientist best known for his work on international relations theory. Born in Coburg, Germany, he entered the University of Frankfurt in 1923 and later attended the University of Munich, obtaining a doctorate in law. He pursued postgraduate work at the …
William Morris (1834–1896) was one of the leading poets and prose writers of late Victorian England, an artist and craftsman, a translator of Norse sagas, a businessman, and one of the most important printers of his time. He was also a revolutionary communist who left behind him a …
Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), was an Italian legal scholar and political theorist. He is known for having helped develop the theory of political elitism and described, in its context, the existence of a dominant political class. Mosca was also a politician and a journalist. Mosca was born in Palermo, …
From its inception, cinema, as an art form, has been political. The works of George Méliès, who voyages to the moon in Le voyage dans la Lune (1902), and the Lumière brothers, who, in their short films (circa 1895–1900) send their cameramen throughout the world, reveal two varied …
States and empires containing different cultural groups have existed for millennia; the word multiculturalism, however, is of recent origin. Possibly the first time it was used was in a speech by Charles W. Hobart, an American sociologist, to the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews in Winnipeg, Manitoba, …
Multilateralism is “an institutional form which coordinates relations among three or more states on the basis of ‘generalized’ principles of conduct,” relying on the indivisibility of agreed behavior among the participating states (Ruggie 1992, 571) and is characterized by “diffuse reciprocity” (cf. Keohane 1986). Multilateral solutions are suitable …
Multilevel models are extensions to regression methods designed to explicitly take into account the grouped (or clustered) structure frequently seen in observed and experimental data. Examples of such data in political science abound. In voting research, for instance, voters are nested within districts, which themselves may be nested …
The multinational corporation (MNC), also called transnational corporation (TNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE), is a corporation with operations in more than one country. The most notable, and often controversial, scenario iThe multinational corporation (MNC), also called transnational corporation (TNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE), is a corporation with operations …
John Kingdon’s (1995) multiple streams framework, which first emerged in the mid-1980s, is a model for understanding public policy agenda setting. Agenda setting is one of the stages of public policy process, even if “stagists” are criticized. Ever since Harold Lasswell’s propositions of the 1950s, numerous authors have …
Modern states have, in general, two or three levels of local self-government: The municipality is usually the lower tier, and the region or province is the middle level of government. Portugal has three levels, while many other countries in Europe and South America, for example, only have two …
Political music comes in two general varieties: representational and associational. Representational Political Music With representational political music, the composer (who may or may not be the performing artist) uses the music to make a political statement. That is, the composer is expressing his or her political views musically, …
The concept of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) emerged in the cold war era of bipolarity as the Soviet Union began to challenge the United States’ position as the world’s preeminent nuclear power. MAD was based on the assumption that two states possessing nuclear capabilities could forge a relatively …
Mutualism is a political ideology on the fringes of anarchism, utopian socialism, and liberalism. Its central values are autonomy and equality of the individual, just exchange, and mutual support. These principles would empower people to govern their affairs unconstrained by market forces and a state. Mutualism favors cooperation …
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated (LDF) began as the legal department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1940. The fund’s activities focus on four areas: education, voter protection, economic justice, and criminal justice. The LDF’s headquarters are located in …
Many studies exploring nations and nationalism have embraced constructivist or postmodern lenses, according to which belonging to a nation is seen as an erroneous belief in a myth that needs to be corrected. In the words of Aviel Roshwald (2006), “The stories peoples, communities, and movements tell about …
National anthems, songs, or hymns adopted by certain nations are performed at official functions of those governments or other public events (baseball games, concerts). Many evoke loyalty to the country or its head of state (king, queen). Text and melody are often written by two or more different …
A national archive is a government body charged with the storage, preservation, documentation, and general administration of governmental and historical records. National archives may also store and preserve materials of special historic or cultural importance to a country, particularly if those materials are in the form of documents …
