I have seen this word "politology" twice recently on politics.SE [here and here]. What does it mean? Judging by the context it seems to be similar to political science.
I googled it, but only got some fairly useless results:
The mostly European/Eurasian field of Politology is different in orientation from American-defined Political Science, to which it is related. Wikipedia
And:
The branch of social science concerned with theory, description, analysis and prediction of political behavior, political systems and politics broadly-construed. Wiktionary
This definition listed "political science" as a synonym.
What is politology? Is it the same as political science or is there some different scope or nuance?