The UCLA Political Science Department in 2010 will celebrate its 90th year of teaching, public service and research in one of the most well-known and commended universities in the United States. Since the program began in September of 1920, the UCLA Political Science Department is among the most established in the entire country and has [...]

Many schools throughout the country offer political science programs both on the undergraduate and graduate level. Political science is an important field that offers students the chance at not only a career as a politician, but other opportunities as well. These include teaching careers, advisement careers and many more.
Political science is considered one of the [...]

Political science is an extremely broad category of social science that has been studied since the time of the ancient Greeks. Over the last few centuries, many political science books and pieces of literature have been published. Since political science is a field that is always changing and where new knowledge is learned every day, [...]

The International Political Science Association (IPSA), founded in 1949 through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is an international association that is focused on the advancement of knowledge pertaining to political science throughout the entire world. For the entire time it has been in existence, the IPSA has helped improve relationships between [...]

Political science majors study a number of aspects about government, policy making, and political ideology. It is a very diverse subject of social science, including political philosophy, structuralism, behavioralism, pluralism, realism, and institutionalism. Students in the political science major generally allocate their focus on one of the subfields of political science, such as political theory, [...]

Political science is a concept that many historians believe originated from the ancient Greeks. Like the ancient Greeks, students in the field pursing a political science degree study the development and functions of a government and the behavior of people that are in position of power. While many people with a political science degree often [...]

Political science careers are a lot more diverse then some people may think. Although political science is mostly concerned with the inner-workings of government and relations between several governments, the skills and knowledge acquired after receiving a degree in political science has the potential to prepare a student for a career other than in the [...]

Students choose political science as a major to understand how and why people in power make decisions and how it affects society as a whole. Political science is not just concerned with government and politics, but also can help decision making in a vast corporation or research institution. These types of political science jobs are [...]