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Behaviouralism has had revolutionary impact on Political Science. It has caused awareness to generate a general theory locating specific units of study. Its emphasis has been to understand man in society and bring about unity in social sciences. Scholars have learnt new modes of analysis and methods of data collection. There is a tendency of […]

Behaviouralism has given empirical methods, tools, and techniques to Political Science, and has made the latter more complete. Its inter-disciplinary nature has helped to understand the basic urges, needs, and demands of man in a better way. It has led scholars to move towards substantive areas and stable units of political life. Political Science is […]

Heinz Eulau has regarded almost and segments of Political Science as suscep­tible to behaviouristic treatment. But Mulford Q. Sibley has vividly discussed the limitations of behaviouralism. Behaviouralists, according to Sibley, regard themselves as value-neutral, but forget that their personality, limitations of knowledge, sources available with them, biases and prejudices and so on deeply influence their […]