政治學一直到二次大戰後才成為德國（西）大學的一門獨立的學科，不少學者認為，德國政治學乃美國對德輸出的時髦產品。事實上，德國政治學者在從事政治學研究時仍多遵循德國的學術傳統。本文曲在介紹政治學在德國大學制度化發展的情形與德國政治學者的研究取向。

Not until the end of the Second War did the Political Science become a independent discipline in the universities in Germany (west). Many people argue that Political Science as a discipline in the German universities is a modern export from the United States. In fact, the German political scientists have in the past four decades followed their own academic tradition in engaging in the research of political Science: the German political scientists prefer the formation of the normative theories to the empirical research. The aim of this article is to present the establishment and the development of the discipline Political Science in the German universities. The central interests here are: What is the tradition of Political Science in Germany? What kind of political-social problems were and are preferred to be researched by the German political scientists. The presentation of this article is therefore divided into following parts: the tradition of Political Science in the modern German history, the formation and institutionalization of Political Science in the German universities, the four schools (Freiburg/Muenchen school, Mannheim school, Frankfurt school and Marburg school) of the research orientation, and the development of Political Science from 1950s to the present time in Germany.