Question

"Politics" is best defined as a process by which groups of people __________.

gather together for meetings
contact their neighbors to encourage voting
make decisions, generally within governments
lead other groups of people to believe a certain way

Answer 1

make decisions, generally within governments

Answer 2

The answer is: make decisions, generally within governments.

The word politics comes from the Greek and it was also the title of Aristotle´s influential book, called by the same name (in which Aristotle analyzed different constitutions of several city-States and their forms of government). If literally translated, the word means: affairs of the cities.

Nowadays the word has many connotations and implications, but generally speaking, it refers to the activities related to the art of governing cities or States, which includes, evidently, groups of people making decisions within governments.