"Political Science is concerned with the state and instruments of Government." Who said this?

Correct answer: (a) Dimock

Explanation

The definition "Political science is concerned with the state and the instruments of government" is given by Marshall E. Dimock. It is an institutional, traditional view that centres the study on the state and its machinery.

The others gave different views:

• Robert Dahl: politics as the study of power and influence.
• David Easton: politics as the "authoritative allocation of values" (systems theory).
• Dante Germino: a philosophical approach to political theory.