Political Science

The political : ancestral, imperative, traditional top-down authority which is obeyed. Power from above (monarchies)

Politics: the process by which collective choices are made wherein a group of individuals whose opinions may diverge reach a decision which commands authority over the group

"Who gets what, when and how?" - Harold Laswell

• Political games and rules of the game
• Political competition, embedded or not within the above games
• Ideational contexts, within which this competition is set
• Actors that may interact, result from and amend all of the above