What Is Politics? | Political Science 2023

   

Politics is the way that people living in groups make decisions. Politics is about making agreements between people so that they can live together in groups such as tribes, cities, or countries. In large groups, such as countries, some people may spend a lot of their time making such agreements.

Politics is a set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. 

It may be used positively in the context of a 'Political solution' which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art on science of government." But also often carries a negative connotation. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential t it.

A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people,negotiation with other political subjects, making laws and exercising internal and external force, including warfare against adversaries. Politics is exercised on a wide range of social levels, from clans and tribes of traditional societies, through modern local governments, companies and institutions up to sovereign states, to the international level.

In modern nation states, people often from political parties to represent their ideas.Members of a party often agree to take the same position on many issues and agree to support the same changes to law and the same leaders.An election is usually a competition between different parties.

A political system is a framework which defines acceptable political methods within a society.The history of political thought can be traced back to early  antiquity, with seminal works such as plato's republic and aristotle's politics in the west, and confucius's political manuscripts and chanakya's arthashastra in the east.

Politics is necessary for people in negotiating with others in other to live in a better and peaceful environment. Politics helps to take drastic decisions.