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The science of power as knowledge arises together with the emergence of power itself. The wise men of Ancient Ukraine, the priests of Ancient Egypt, the sages of the emperors of Ancient China — all of them were political scientists. But, like power itself, political science still remains the affair of a small, closed caste of people, which the renowned Ukrainian political scientist Dmytro Dontsov called the leading stratum.
Political science as a discipline is defined at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, when thinkers began to explain political processes using a scientific approach. The foundations of the scientific approach to politics are laid by N. Machiavelli, F. Nietzsche, I. Kant, J. Bodin, T. Hobbes, J. Locke, C.-L. Montesquieu, G. Vico, and others. At this time, the special field of knowledge about politics is called by different names — political philosophy, political art, political doctrine, and so on.
Political science as an independent academic discipline began to take shape in the second half of the 19th century. In 1857, F. Lieber began teaching this course at Columbia College; in 1880, the first school of political science was established at the same college, which marked the beginning of the active formation of a system of political science educational and research institutions in the USA. The founding of the American Political Science Association dates to 1903. This is connected to the development of capitalism and the banking system, democratic institutions, and the need for a professional approach to governance, as well as the demand for personnel in the sphere of active communications within the hierarchy of coordination management of colonial and post-colonial states, which the USA itself had become.
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