Law and politics in time and space

Kazimierz Opałek

pp. 121-135

in: Kazimierz Opałek, Selected papers in legal philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

The older trend in political science, one that has scarcely any followers nowadays, tended to reduce politics to the activities of the State. This trend, markedly influenced by the study of law, connected political science with the juristic science of government (allgemeine Staatlehre), which resulted in establishing a narrow scope of the subject-matter of the former¹.