2. It is the study of Relationship between the man and the state.
The scope of Political science also includes a study of the nature of relationship between the individual and the state. The process of men with the society is an important aspects of political science. The state guarantees certain rights and liberties to its citizens and at the same time impose certain reasonable restrictions on them. In fact, state exists for the welfare of the people. As an agent of the state, it is the function of the government to try to secure welfare for all who live within the territorial boundary of the state.
Again the government of any state greatly influenced by the thoughts and ideas of that state. Therefore, the study about the state and government is bounded to be inconclusive without the study of the nature of the people who constitute the state. It is in this connection Max Webber has stated that political science is a descriptive and normative science and describes it as the study of human behaviour in the process of enquiry of justice.