nature and scope

1. POLITICAL SCIENCE
NAME: AVI PATEL
ROLL NO. : 07
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.