What are the difference and similarities between government and politics?

Answer 1

Government is the structure with which a society is governed. For the most part, the politics of the people helping to create a government influences the way a government operates. The two terms are part of each other. In this sense it can be said that politics and government are similar.

But there is a difference as well between the two. And this sometimes is simply the manner in which the terms are used. For example:

1. The politics of the people creating the government as said earlier, determines how the government works;

1a. If the politics of the people creating the rules of the government are of the intent to have the government be an oppressive force, we then have this type of government.

2. Once the government is established and working, people with a specific political agenda may alter the ways the government works to the benefit of these certain politicians.