Short answers, pulled from the story.
Political science emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the late 19th century. The term was first formally defined in the inaugural issue of Political Science Quarterly in 1886 by Munroe Smith. This event marked a transition from normative questions about what ought to be to positive inquiries about how things are.
The American Political Science Association was established in 1903. Membership in the association grew rapidly from 204 in 1904 to 1,462 by 1915. The subsequent founding of the American Political Science Review in 1906 signaled the institutionalization of the field.
The behavioral revolution in political science occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. This movement shifted the focus from the study of institutions and legal texts to the systematic analysis of individual and group behavior. Scholars such as Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Bernard Berelson drove this transformation.
The Perestroika Movement in political science was introduced in 2000. This movement was a reaction against the mathematicization of political science and argued that the field had become too focused on abstract models. Proponents advocated for a plurality of methodologies and approaches to make the discipline more accessible and relevant.
Political scientists diagnosed the 2014 Ukrainian economic and political crisis using a statistical indicator of crisis involving a simultaneous increase of variance and correlations in large groups. During the pre-crisis years, there was a simultaneous increase in the total correlation between the 19 major public fears in Ukrainian society by about 64% and in their statistical dispersion by 29%.