Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors. Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both ...
Most political scientists work broadly in one or more of the following five areas:Comparative politics, including area studiesInternational relationsPolitical philosophy e.g. Political ethicsPublic ad ...
Because political science is essentially a study of human behavior, in all aspects of politics, observations in controlled environments are often challenging to reproduce or duplicate, though experime ...
Political scientists study matters concerning the allocation and transfer of power in decision making, the roles and systems of governance including governments and international organizations, politi ...
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, nation, government, and politics and policies of government. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It ...
The main institutions of law in industrialised countries are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the military and police, bureaucratic organisation, the legal pro ...
Main article: Philosophy of law"But what, after all, is a law? When I say that the object of laws is always general, I mean that law considers subjects en masse and actions in the abstract, and never ...
Main article: Legal historyKing Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, also revered as the god of justice.The history of law connects closely to the development of ...
Main article: Legal systems of the worldIn general, legal systems can be split between civil law and common law systems. The term "civil law" referring to a legal system should not be confused with "c ...
All legal systems deal with the same basic issues, but jurisdictions categorise and identify its legal subjects in different ways. A common distinction is that between "public law" (a term related clo ...
Whether it is possible or desirable to define lawThere have been many attempts to produce "a universally acceptable definition of law". By 1972, no such definition had been produced. McCoubrey and Whi ...
In most countries history textbook are tools to foster nationalism and patriotism, and give students the official line about national enemies.In many countries history textbooks are sponsored by the n ...
From the origins of national school systems in the 19th century, the teaching of history to promote national sentiment has been a high priority. In the United States after World War I, a strong moveme ...
Pseudohistory is a term applied to texts which purport to be historical in nature but which depart from standard historiographical conventions in a way which undermines their conclusions. Closely rela ...
