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Assertion (A): All politics is about power. The practice of politics is often portrayed as little more…

Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason explains the assertion. Studying who holds power, how it is used and why it is accepted explains why political…

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Assertion (A): All politics is about power. The practice of politics is often portrayed as little more than the exercise of power.
Reason (R): Students of politics are students of power: they seek to know who has it, how it is used and on what basis it is exercised.

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Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason explains the assertion. Studying who holds power, how it is used and why it is accepted explains why political practice is understood through the exercise of power.

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