The Judicial Decision
A Second Look At Certain Assumptions of Behavioral Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3521134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James L Blawie (Santa Clara University), Marilyn J Blawie (California State College, Hayward) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 579 |
| Publication date | 1965-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/445745 |
| OpenAlex | W4238029239, W1980508945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
REALISM and the behavioristic approach have had a great effect on the various branches of social knowledge, offering almost infinite opportunities for research, debate, and modification of older ideas in every field concerned with man in society. The social sciences are every year becoming more exact and factually based. Yet, in the public law area of political science, obsolete and downright incorrect notions have not merely continued in force, but multiplied in strength. New fairy-castles have been built upon earlier studies, themselves all too often based in whole or part upon incomplete analysis, preconceived notions, and error. The very excellence of early behavioristic inquiries into the field has perhaps led less careful men to jump from limited and valid data presented by the pioneers to invalid generalizations. A collection of vague stereotypes and clannish suspicions has obscured the present-day realities of the field of socio-judicial behavior
Epistemology · Excellence · Field (mathematics) · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 1974 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |