Political Science · Political Theory
'Politics is that part of social science which treats of the foundations of state and the principles of government'. Who made this statement?
AWilloughby
BSeeley
CPaul Janet ✓ Correct
DS.L. Wasby
Correct answer: (C) Paul Janet — This definition was given by Paul Janet, so the answer is Paul Janet.
Explanation
★This definition was given by Paul Janet, so the answer is Paul Janet.
★Janet treated political science as the branch of social science dealing with the state and government.
★His definition keeps both the state, its foundations, and government, its principles, at the centre.
★It represents the traditional, state-centric way of defining the discipline.
★Willoughby and Seeley wrote on the nature of the state, but this exact wording is Janet's.
★S. L. Wasby was a modern writer on the political process, not the author of this classical definition.
★Such state-and-government definitions were later widened by behaviouralists to include power and behaviour.
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