Political Science

From the Greek word politike

“relating to citizens, state and its composition as a community”. 

Politics is understood as the power conceded to an individual or group to exercise strong population control over a territory, ultimately by force (De la Torre, 2006).

By collecting quantitative and qualitative data to find patterns and then make generalizations to build theories

Treatise on Civil Government

—John Lock

—Which states that all men are created equal by God and develops ideas of property and a constitutional monarchy. 

Social Contract

—Jan Jacques Rousseau.

—His political work was and helped to inspire political reforms and revolutions in Europe, especially France. Opposed the idea that the monarch had the power to legislate for God. 

The Spirit of Laws

—Montesquieu

—The treatment of separation of powers. 

Perpetual Peace

—Immanuel Kant

—Proposes a political system of peaceful international relations through global formation of republics. 

The Communist Manifesto

—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

—They argue that all changes in the form of society, in political institutions, in History itself, is driven by a process of collective struggle to make their material or economic interests. 

The Will to Power

—Friedrich Nietzsche

—He states that human motivation is the desire of power.