The word "Politics" comes from the Greek word 'politika' modeled on Aristotle's "affairs of state".
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.
In a simpler way it can be said that, each one of us do have a concept of an Ideal State. But in reality the State in its present condition need not necessarily match with the concept of that Ideal State. Thus the difference between Ideal State and Present State may be referred to as Politics.
