The New Revolution in Political Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3454883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Easton (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1051-1061 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1955071 |
| OpenAlex | W4247819526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 1 |
A new revolution is under way in American political science. The last revolution-behavioralism-has scarcely been completed before it has been overtaken by the increasing social and political crises of our time. The weight of these crises is being felt within our discipline in the form of a new conflict in the throes of which we now find ourselves. This new and latest challenge is directed against a developing behavioral orthodoxy. This challenge I shall call the post-behavioral revolution.The initial impulse of this revolution is just being felt. Its battle cries are relevance and action. Its objects of criticism are the disciplines, the professions, and the universities. It is still too young to be described definitively. Yet we cannot treat it as a passing phenomenon, as a kind of accident of history that will somehow fade away and leave us very much as we were before. Rather it appears to be a specific and important episode in the history of our discipline, if not in all of the social sciences. It behooves us to examine this revolution closely for its possible place in the continuing evolution of political science. Does it represent a threat to the discipline, one that will divert us from our long history in the search for reliable understanding of politics? Or is it just one more change that will enhance our capacity to find such knowledge
Battle · Criticism · Epistemology · Impulse (physics · Orthodoxy · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education
Introduction to critical policy studies
The “Problem of Values” and International Relations Scholarship: From Applied Reflexivity to Reflexivism
Eurocentrism vs. Afrocentric Scholarship
From Rostow to Gunder Frank
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Paradigms in conflict
The impact of social group relations and governmental trust on societal confidence
Explaining complexity to power. A failed mission
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On the shoulders of giants
Political Theory within and without Political Science
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Description as the basis for conceptualization and inquiry
The Post-Behavioral Revolution in Community Power
Political Philosophy and the Policy Studies Organization
Sauce for the Gander or Putting Political Behavior to Work for Political Science
The Chicago School That Never Was
A Path not Taken
The Law Presidential Studies, Behavioralism, and Public Law
The Forest Management Policy and its Influence in Forest area Utilization and Empowering Forest Communities in Yogyakarta
End of history, or its continuation and accentuation? The global South and the ‘new transformation’ literature
From modernization theory to public policy
An Exposition of Weber's Approach to Verstehende Soziologie
The amorphous paradigms
The quiet revolution in the scientific study of international politics and foreign policy
Delphi, political philosophy and the future
Hegel as a Social Scientist
Political Science as a Dependent Variable
A Note on Behavioralists and Post-Behavioralists in Contemporary Political Science
Some New Concerns of Legal Process Research Within Political Science
A heterogeneidade e o pluralismo do institucionalismo
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International Organization and the crisis of interdependence
The Technological Society and British Politics
Some Characteristics of Political Science in Japan
Behavioralism, Post-Beliavioralism, and the Philosophy of Science
Integration and Fragmentation in Political Science
Ties That Bind
Political Science in the Era of Post‐Behavioralism. The Need for Self‐Reflection
Dividing the Domain of Political Science
Political Psychology in Canada
Models of Policy Discourse
Public Policy Analysis
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs
The Chicago School
Handbooks and History
Philosophy and Political Theory
The Cumulation Problem in Political Science an Essay on Research Strategies
Nordic political science
Populism, elitism, and the populist ideology of elites
A Problematic Discipline
Race, Racism, and the Crisis of Democracy in Political Science
Perspektiewe in David Easton se stelselontleding
Contemporary trends and issues in the theory of development
Teaching the Politics of Islamic Fundamentalism
Strata and Stability
Wikipedia and Political Science
Intelligent Computing Social Modeling and Methodological Innovations in Political Science in the Era of Large Language Models
El conductismo en la ciencia política
Partisan Islamists in Algeria
The Ford Foundation and the Rise of Behavioralism in Political Science
Implementing Legal Policies Through Operant Conditioning
The Reconstitution of Political Theory
The Founding of the American Political Science Association
Scientific Communication, Ethical Argument, and Public Policy
Great Punctuations
Restructuring the Past
| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2025 (55) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |