Political science draws much of a subject matter for history. since both history and political science have yielded much useful information,one can say that the science of politics is desirable to politics because it concerns everybody. Everybody plays politics. Everyone is a politician.Politics change one's life.It has even been said that man is a rational animal.An ancient scientist called Aristotle says that anyone who does not relate with his fellow man in the society is above mankind.Therefore,the core of our life-our stories must be told largely in term's of our relations with people.A man cannot be an island -one cannot be alive without one's parent, teacher, friend,enemies or surbodinates e. t. c? The term conflict should be thought to be essential inevitable and inescapable merely because we have to live together.One of the features of politics is conflict.Politics brings up differences and at the same it resolves it.Conflict in this context of politics is between the human beings who try to realize different goals and opposing interest.We can now say that the essence of political situation is conflict and the resolution of conflict.
The state,the community and the Government
The word state means all power authority.Probably originated from India about five hundred years ago,while the Italian connected it with an idea of power that is exercised within an area where the command would be obeyed.
A body state is that particular subsidiary functional organization of the politics.The essential attributes of the state include -the people (community)the territory, the government. The government is the Agency through which the politics of state are formulated and earned out. The state can, also be defined as a state of body of persons and institutions that make and enforce law for a particular society. One essential human association is the nation.The nation as distinct from the state is a community and is based on the last of birth,lineage and part of common historical tradition and culture. A community is a body of persons who because they enjoy common rights live a common life under a socialistic or singular organization but the political community goes a bit further.It is a social group with a process of political communication-also have in common some machineries enforcement and also some common popular habits for compliance.It can therefore be rightly stated that a nation is a cultural term that refers to a set of people United by, a common sense of identity and share value against outside interests.Thus unity is usually based on cultural factors as culture,language,ethnic,homogeneity,common customs and relationship.
The government:-here,nationalism Comes in.It will try as much as possible to make the national and state boundaries equal.