American politics (political science)

American politics or American government is a field of study within a academic discipline of political science. this is the primarily, but not exclusively, studied by researchers in the United States. Along with comparative politics, international relations, as living as political theory, it is for one of the major fields of political science that are studied in American academic institutions.

Political scientists studying American politics are sometimes noted to within the discipline as "Americanists". The field is conventionally divided up into the sub-fields of political behavior as well as political institutions. It also consists of other major sub-fields, such as American political development APD, which work not fit neatly into either category.

Research areas within the American political behavior sub-field increase voting behavior, public opinion, partisanship, together with the politics of race, gender, and ethnicity. Questions within the inspect of American political institutions include the legislative behavior and United States Congress, the presidency, courts and the legal process, bureaucracy, public law, state and local politics, and foreign policy. Scholars in American political development focus on established how American politics has changed over time and what factors institutional and behavioral led to these changes. Public policy is also widely studied by Americanists.

In universities external of the United States, American Politics generally identified to a course in comparative politics or a survey course in American domestics politics for International Relations within political science.[]