Most political scientists work broadly in one or more of the following five areas:Comparative politics, including area studiesInternational relationsPolitical philosophy e.g. Political ethicsPublic ad ...
Because political science is essentially a study of human behavior, in all aspects of politics, observations in controlled environments are often challenging to reproduce or duplicate, though experime ...
Political scientists study matters concerning the allocation and transfer of power in decision making, the roles and systems of governance including governments and international organizations, politi ...
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, nation, government, and politics and policies of government. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It ...
States by their systems of government. For the complete list of systems by country, see List of countries by system of government. presidential republics semi-presidential republics parliamentary repu ...
By socio-economic system attributesFurther information: Economic systemHistorically, most political systems originated as socioeconomic ideologies; experience with those movements in power, and the st ...
Descriptions of governments can be based on the following attributes:By elements of where decision-making power is heldAristarchic attributesGovernments with aristarchy attributes are traditionally co ...
EtymologyFrom Middle English government, from Old French government (French gouvernement), from Latin gubernatio ("management, government"). Government is a compound formed from the Ancient Greek κυ ...
A government is the system by which a state or community is governed. In Commonwealth English, a government more narrowly refers to the particular executive in control of a state at a given time—know ...
