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means The academic discipline that studies government, power, political behavior, and the institutions through which societies make collective decisions.

from A straightforward compound: 'political' from Greek 'politikos' (of citizens, of the polis — the city-state), via 'polites' (citizen) and ultimately 'polis' (city); paired with 'science' from Latin 'scientia' (knowledge), from 'scire' (to know). The field itself solidified as a named academic discipline in the 19th century, when scholars began insisting that the study of government deserved the same systematic label — 'science' — already claimed by chemists and biologists, a bid for rigor that political scientists have been good-naturedly defending ever since.