Political science is the study of politics and government. It examines how governments are formed, how they operate, and how they make and enforce laws. It also analyzes political behavior of individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions. Political science aims to understand the meaning of politics which originated from the Greek word "polis" meaning city-state. Each city-state had its own unique form of government and administration regardless of its size.

1. POLITICAL SCIENCE
NAME: AVI PATEL
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BA. LLB.

2. MEANING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
• The word Politics is derived from the word Polis, the exact meaning of
which is city-state.
• Every polis or city- state had its own form of government,
administration, management etc and all these did not depend upon
the size of the polis or city-state.
• Thus politics is understood to denote something about polis or city-
state.

3. Scope of political science
• Political science is the most important branch of social science and its
chief concern is with the political behaviour of individuals, groups of
individuals, agencies, institutions, organisation.
• The interesting fact is that various scholars and political scientists
have made sincere attempts to view its scope from their respective
angles.

4. Politics as the Art of Government:
• Politics is an art and the art is closely related with the management of
government.
• Researchers have found that in ancient Greek polity politics took
place and in those days politics meant management and
administration of Polity.