Meaning of Political Science.

Meaning of Political Science.
Political Science is the systematic study of the State and Government.
The word “Political” is derived from the Greek polis, meaning a city, or what today would be the equivalent of sovereign state; the word “science” comes from the Latin scire, “to Know.”


1. The Science of politics, therefore, has, as its formal object, a basic knowledge and understanding of the state and of the principles and ideals which underlie its organization and activities.


2. It is primarily concerned with the association of human beings into a “body politic,” or a political community (one organized under government and law).


3. As such, it deaks with those relations among men and groups which are subject to control by the state, with the relations of men and groups to the state itself, and with the relations of state to other states.