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'''Political science''' is a social science, concerned with the theory and practice of [[politics]] and the description and analysis of [[political system]]s and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions. And from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics work."<ref>[http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/polisci.html Political Science]. Unc.edu (1999-02-22). Retrieved on 2010-11-13.</ref> Political science intersects with other fields; including [[public policy]], national politics, [[economics]], [[international relations]], [[comparative politics]], [[psychology]], [[sociology]], [[history]], [[law]], and [[political theory]].<br />
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Political science is commonly divided into three distinct sub-disciplines which constitute the field; [[Political philosophy|Political Philosophy]], [[Comparative politics|Comparative Politics]] and [[international relations|International Relations]]. Each of those three fields covers another part of political actions and interactions. Political Philosophy is the reasoning for an absolute normative government, laws and similar questions and their distinctive characteristics. Comparative Politics is the science of comparison and teaching of different types of constitutions, political actors, legislature and associated fields, all of them from an intrastate perspective. International Relations deals with the interaction between [[nationstate]]s as well as intergovernmental and transnational organizations. <br />
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Political science is methodologically diverse and appropriates many methods originating in [[social research]]. Approaches include [[positivism]], [[Verstehen|interpretivism]], [[rational choice theory]], [[behavioral]], [[structuralism]], [[post-structuralism]], [[Philosophical realism|realism]], [[institutionalism]], and pluralism. Political science, as one of the [[social science]]s, uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources such as historical documents and official records, secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles, [[sample survey|survey]] research, [[statistical analysis]], [[case studies]], and model building.<br />
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"As a discipline" political science, possibly like the social sciences as a whole, "lives on the fault line between the 'two cultures' in the academy, the [[sciences]] and the [[humanities]]."<ref name=Stoner>{{cite web|last=Stoner|first=J. R.|url=http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/5/5/8/p245585_index.html|title=Political Science and Political Education|publisher=Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference ([[American Political Science Association|APSA]]), San José Marriott, [[San José, California]]|date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2009-02-04|quote=… although one might allege the same for social science as a whole, political scientists receive funding from and play an active role in both the [[National Science Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] [in the United States].}} <nowiki><http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245585_index.html></nowiki>.</ref> Thus, in some American colleges where there is no separate School or College of Arts and Sciences per se, political science may be a separate department housed as part of a division or school of Humanities or [[Liberal Arts]].<ref name=Marist>See, e.g., the department of [http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/polsci/ Political Science] at [[Marist College]], part of a Division of Humanities before that division became the School of Liberal Arts (c. 2000).</ref> Whereas classical [[political philosophy]] is primarily defined by a concern for [[Hellenic]] and [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] thought, political scientists are broadly marked by a greater concern for "[[modernity]]" and the contemporary [[nation state]], and as such share a greater deal of terminology with [[sociologists]] (e.g. [[structure and agency]]).</div>wikademia>Eme