Definitions

In the view of Harold Lasswell, politics is "who gets what, when, how."

For David Easton, it is about "the authoritative allocation of values for a society."To Vladimir Lenin, "politics is the most concentrated expression of economics."

Bernard Crick argued that "politics is a distinctive form of rule whereby people act together through institutionalized procedures to resolve differences, to conciliate diverse interests and values and to make public policies in the pursuit of common purposes."

According to Adrian Leftwich:

Politics comprises all the activities of co-operation, negotiation and conflict within and between societies, whereby people go about organizing the use, production or distribution of human, natural and other resources in the course of the production and reproduction of their biological and social life.