This episode is an aggregation of five previous guest's answers to the question "How do you understand 'politics' or 'the political'?". Here you will hear answers to this question by: Dr. Keith Preble @poliscikeith and Charmaine Willis @futuredrwillis of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany - State University of New York; Chloe Carrol @ChloeABCarroll of the University of Limerick; Dr. Georg Löfflmann @gloefflmann of the University of Warwick; and Ana-Maria Anghelescu @AnaAndreeaa of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest.