In the view of Harold Lasswell, politics is "who gets what, when, how.".The singular politic first attested in English in 1430, coming from Middle French politique-itself taking from politicus, a Latinization of the Greek πολιτικός ( politikos) from πολίτης ( polites, 'citizen') and πόλις ( polis, 'city').
In the mid-15th century, Aristotle's composition would be rendered in Early Modern English as Polettiques, which would become Politics in Modern English. The English politics has its roots in the name of Aristotle's classic work, Politiká, which introduced the Greek term politiká ( Πολιτικά, 'affairs of the cities').
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. For example, abolitionist Wendell Phillips declared that "we do not play politics anti-slavery is no half-jest with us." The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it.Ī 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 force, including warfare against adversaries. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. Election to the Sabzevar City Council, Iran.