To return to the current issue please click here . It is a basic question that may go to the heart of why one chooses to go to school.
Political science is one of the social sciences.
I started taking political science because I had aspirations of becoming an attorney, and I was politically active. Numbers vary, but roughly 85 to 95 percent of all legislators have law degrees. The logic worked well until I was told that many of those who did well on the LSAT and in law school, majored in English. It also became clear that studying politics was different from practicing it. In fairness, both the practice and study of politics does require an amount of mental toughness and work to excel.