Marcus A. Stadelmann

This Cheat Sheet focuses on 50 key dates in the history of first ladies of the United States. These events mark the unique and continuing evolution of the office of First Lady and the first ladies themselves. ©Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs DivisionJacqueline Lee Bouvier KennedyEvents during the 1700s and 1800sJune 3, 1781: Martha Jefferson dies.

No study of political science is complete without looking at political socialization. Political socialization is the process of how people acquire their political values. The political values people possess in turn will shape their political behavior within the state. Political socialization teaches children political values and norms that will later impact their political behavior.

When you are studying communism as part of your political science education, you might think that communism in China is the same communism as in Russia. However, communism in China, or Maoism, is very different.Mao Zedong (see the following figure) knew right away that Marxism and Leninism weren’t a perfect fit for China in the 1920s.

Political science is the study of power. The discipline is enamored with the concept of power, namely how A gets B to do what A wants. Therefore, political science studies who holds power and how it’s being used.Political power is the ability to get others to do what you want. It can take force or peaceful means, such as persuasion, to achieve this.

Readers who want to learn more about political science than they’d find in a regular textbook should take a look at the ten books listed in this article. They’re not only classics in the field but also still relevant today. My hope is that you pick one or more of the books and decide to not only read it but afterward come to the conclusion that it still matters today.

When studying political science, you will learn about the formation of the United Nations and its mission to protect human rights throughout the world. The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the three most important pieces of international legislation in regard to human rights. They are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966).

The concept of globalization has become one of the most widely used terms in the International Political Economy (IPE) today. Globalization refers to the integration of countries through increasing trade and contact. It’s defined as a widening, deepening, and speeding up of a worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life, from the cultural to the criminal, from the financial to the spiritual.