Political science seeks to understand, 来解释, 有时,评估人类如何在公共场合一起生活和工作. 这样做, 政治学家关注的是政府和政治内部及其周围发生的事情, how humans cooperate with and how they fight against one another, why some nations succeed and others fail.
Political scientists study voting and revolutions, the Supreme Court and the United Nations, the idea of justice and the nature of power, environmental policy, 刑法和性别政治——所有这些都是为了更清晰地了解人类在公共领域互动的特征方式.