Political

Politics, sometimes defined as "the art and science of government.", is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. more...

Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. Politics is also observed, to varrying degrees, in certain Mammal species.

Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power.

One theorist, Harold Lasswell, has defined politics as "who gets what, when, where, and how." An alternative definition, put forth by political scientists Dickerson and Flanagan, is that politics is a "process of conflict resolution in which support is mobilized and maintained for collective projects".

A natural state

In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published his most famous work, Leviathan, in which he proposed a model of early human development to justify the creation of a government. Hobbes described an ideal state of nature wherein every person had equal right to every resource in nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. He claimed that such an arrangement created a “war of all against all” (bellum omnium contra omnes). Further, he noted that men would enter into a social contract and would give up absolute rights for certain protections. Hobbes made a second claim: that the solution to the aggression problem was a centralized authoritarian state, which he called Leviathan.

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