❑Harold Lasswell defined politics as “who gets what, when, how.
❑Politics exists wherever people interact with one another to
make decisions that affect them collectively. Most generally,
politics is mutual interaction in public sphere inside and among
individuals, groups, or institutions that seek to arrive at a decision
about how to make a collective choice, or to solve collective
issues.
❑Political science focuses primarily on these interactions as they
involve governments.
❑Every political issue has an unique identity that requires special
treatment. The mass protests in Hong Kong in 2020, inspired by
those seeking to protect their political rights, were not exactly the
same as the climate change actions animated by Swedish
environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Yet as varied as political
situations can be, there are commonalities across these events and
over all political activities