The document discusses power, authority, and political parties. It defines power as the ability to influence others and authority as the right to achieve organizational objectives and make decisions through others. Politics involves achieving and using power in a society through strategies and structures. Political institutions are important for the regular functioning of a country by establishing leadership succession. The political history of the world expanded from early governance systems to modern democratic and totalitarian systems. Government is the group that controls and makes decisions for a country, and there are different forms including monarchy, tyranny, democracy, and aristocracy/oligarchy.