In Bracher's view, "politics is the struggle for the power of the state", and in his opinion, the traditional methods of the historian have to be supplemented by the methods of political science to properly understand political history.
在布拉赫的观点中，“政治是国家权力的构造”，而且在他的观点中，历史学家的传统方法须由政治科学的方法支持以正确理解政治史（英语：political history）。