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The article focuses on the employment of mathematics in political science. It evaluates the use of mathematical tools and methods in present day political science. It reviews the evolution in the use of mathematics, and relates it with the evolution to the different methodological approaches using mathematics, and to the subjects of research in each different sub-areas of political science. It aims to determine the aspects of mathematics that are mostly used and serves as a point of departure for the study of the situation. It analyzes the mathematical content of early political science journals from Europe and America.