Comment on Post-Behavioural approach. (150 words)
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 late 1960s → Easton’s turn to relevance and values — a reform, not a reaction.
Route 2 pure science exhausted → “ivory towers” → the demand for relevance.
Behavioural detachment amid 1960s crises → keeps empirical gains, adds relevance + values + action → pure → applied, method → purpose → the 1969 Credo → twin slogans: relevance + action.
Waldo: a “raving, rumbling structure without any ultimate destiny”.
Route 1 reconnected the discipline with purpose without losing rigour.
Route 2 a reform and synthesis, not a counter-revolution.
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Political Theory — 10 questions in the Vault.
- Comment on decline of political theory. (150 words)
- Discuss the significance of a normative approach to political theory.
- Examine the importance of behavioural approach in political theory. What led to its decline?
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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