ABSTRACT
Politics does sometimes have a bad name. Yet even those who label politics as ‘dirty’ are often inconsistent in their attitudes. Few uniformly describe as ‘dirty’ all the political activities that they witness around them. While moral objections to the whole of politics can be fairly easily dismissed, objections to the idea of politics as the subject of coherent studies need to be considered carefully. Indeed, periodically, doubts have been expressed – among intellectuals as well as among laymen – about the very possibility of political science. The model of economics might appear to show the direction in which political science should go, but for inherent irreconcilable differences between the two subjects. The study of politics seems more amorphous, more eclectic in its aims, more slippery in its techniques of investigation. The study of politics covers a wider and more diffuse area of man’s life than economics.
