Political science (or, if you want, politology) is a

science for two reasons. First, because it is the

structured study of a set of phenomena, involving itself

with identifying them, grouping them, forming causal and

criterial relations amongst them and providing a

theoretical framweork for them by creating theories and

testing them through the usage of experimentation and

observation, and second, because it uses what is called the

scientific method - i.e. creating and improving on theories

by falsifying them that is, by testing them against

existing observations and improving them (or disproving

them) based on those observations