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Running head: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHTHE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHTable of ContentsAnswer 1..........................................................................................................................................2Political theory.............................................................................................................................2Hypothesis...................................................................................................................................2ANSWER 2 A..................................................................................................................................4Answer 2. B:....................................................................................................................................5Answer 3..........................................................................................................................................5Game Theory Model....................................................................................................................5Zero sum games...........................................................................................................................6Answer 4:.........................................................................................................................................7References......................................................................................................................................10

2THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHAnswer 1Political theoryThe concept of political theory has been used to describe the principles and ideas that areused by the people to explain, evaluate and provide a description of the political institutions andevents. Marxism, developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Marxismis a social as wellas a political theory that argues that a social change comes about through the process ofeconomic class struggle. The Communist Manifestoand the Das Kapital are some of theimportant works (Levinson, Cookson and Sadovnik 2014).According to the Marxists,class struggle has been the momentum for social change. Thetheory suggests that the past or history can be viewed as a chain of class struggles where onesocial class has been oppressed by the others. The oppressed classes in the long run conquer theoppressor class and henceforth, a new social structure arises with a new set of oppressors andnew classes to be oppressed (Peet and Hartwick 2015). Marx argued that the class of proletarian,or the worker, was being oppressed by capitalists who acquired a large amount of the value ofthe proletarian work to make profitsHypothesis 1:

3THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHThe communist hypothesis has been: that a different collective organization is suggestedpracticable, which will do away with the inequalities of wealth and the division of labor. Thepersonal appropriation of enormous fortunes and their transmission by the inheritance willeventually disappear. 2:The existence of a violent and coercive state, distinct from the civil society, would nolonger emerge as a necessity: a lengthy process of restructuring based on free association ofproducers will witness it withering away.Variables in hypothesis 1:Inequalities of wealth and division of labor.Variables in hypothesis 2:Existence of a violent and coercive state. The hurdles faced in making a practical approach to Marxism:The class structure in the society, today has been more multifaceted than the concept of‘Bourgeois-Proletariat’ referred in Marxism. In most of the Western parts of the world andprogressively more in the developing countries there has been an existence of anextensive‘middle-class’,assumed to have stocks as well as shares that is invested in the Corporations runby that particular class, which the Marxists would interpret as ‘Capitalist Class’.The concept of ‘grand theorizing’ by Marx, with reference to the world being no longerrelevant would not be much of a practical significance– Instead, researching with the intention

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