Rise and Decline of Science of Politics: Science of politics, empiricism of politics, application of scientific and sophisticated methods in political science convey almost the same idea and David Easton is the progenitor of all these concepts. Other persons, some of them his predecessors, were also associated with him but Easton, frankly speaking, championed empiricism. In 1953 his The Political [...]
Post-Behavioural Revolution: It’s Nature! Prelude: The longevity of behaviouralism was just of two decades. After the Second World War it surfaced in the American continent and one of its exponents was David Easton. Towards the close of the sixties another revolutionary thought engulfed political science and it was (as captioned by Easton) post-behavioural revolution. It would be a misconception to [...]
Difference between Behaviouralism and Marxism! Marxism is older than behaviouralism. From the late eighties of the nineteenth century Marx's literature, his ideas and views were read and analysed by large number of scholars of both hemispheres. At the beginning of the twentieth century Marxism constituted the central topic of academic discussion and analysis, and it was aptly compared with capitalism. [...]