Definition of Political Science
•Aristotle – Political Science was a “master science” because it gave knowledge and understanding to those who controlled the state.
•Today, political science was redefined as “the science of the state” or “a branch of social sciences dealing with theory, organization, government and practice of the state.” (E.G. Catlin)
•Willoughby – “the science which has for its object the ascertainment of political facts and arrangement of them in systematic order as determined by the logical and causal relations who exist between them.”