Political Science, within the Social Sciences, encompasses the systematic study of political systems, institutions, behaviors, and normative principles that govern the distribution and exercise of power in societies. It includes major subfields such as political theory, comparative politics, international relations, public administration, public policy, and political economy. Political theory examines foundational concepts - justice, authority, liberty, legitimacy - along with the philosophical traditions that shape political thought. Comparative politics analyzes domestic political structures, electoral systems, party dynamics, and governance models across different countries and cultures. International relations investigates diplomacy, conflict, cooperation, international law, global governance, and the behavior of state and non-state actors in the international system. Public administration and public policy study the design, implementation, and evaluation of governmental programs, regulatory frameworks, and bureaucratic institutions. Political economy links political processes to economic outcomes, exploring how institutions, incentives, and social forces interact to produce policy decisions and structural change. Together, these subfields form a comprehensive discipline that explains political behavior, institutional performance, and the forces shaping local, national, and global governance.
Within the methodological architecture of the Quantum Dictionary, Political Science represents a domain marked by contextual variability shaped by ideological frameworks, institutional configurations, cultural environments, and methodological approaches. Terms such as “power,” “state,” “legitimacy,” “representation,” “sovereignty,” or “governance” collapse into distinct semantic states depending on whether they are deployed in political theory, comparative institutional analysis, international relations, public-policy evaluation, or administrative practice. Political terminology is further influenced by historical period, regional context, legal structure, and epistemic tradition—factors that generate divergent meanings for the same concepts across different scholarly communities and political systems. The platform’s quantum-semantic architecture encodes each term as a contextual semantic entity whose meaning resolves according to ideological perspective, institutional setting, analytical method, or geopolitical frame. This ensures semantic interoperability with adjacent fields such as law, economics, sociology, philosophy, and public administration while preserving the precision required for scholarly analysis, policy formulation, and institutional design. By modeling the interplay among political ideas, structures, behaviors, and global dynamics, the Quantum Dictionary provides a coherent and adaptive lexicon aligned with the complexity and continuously evolving nature of Political Science.
