Let us check our understanding about politics and governance by responding to the following tests.

A. Define each word base on your own understanding.

MEANING

1.POLITICAL SCIENCE Political science is a study the range of political ideas, events,

Actions, and institutions. It also seeks to analyze and predict

Critical issues that affects our lives every day.

2.POLITICS politics is a study or practice of the distribution of power

And resources within a given community.

3.GOVERNANCE governance is an act of governing or ruling. the exercise of

Economic, political and administrative authority to manage

a country’s affairs at all levels.

4.GOVERNMENT Government is a group of people governing an organized

Community.

B. Compare and contrast Politics and Political Science using the Venn Diagram below.

POLITICS POLITICAL

SCIENCE

Methodology and activities associated Both human activities are a social science discipline

with running a government, an concerned with the study of the state,

organization, or a movement. nation, government, politics, and policies of

government.
C. Compare and contrast Government and Governance using the Venn Diagram below
GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE

Is a group of people Run by a group of

that is governing the Governance is the act
people.
of governing or ruling.
country and the
Is about making
community.
strategic decisions like
laws and regulations.