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( Behavioralism)
Behavioralism (not to be confused with the learning theory, behaviorism) is an approach in political science which seeks to provide an objective, quantified approach to explaining and predicting political behavior.[citation needed] It is associated with the rise of the behavioral sciences, modeled after the natural sciences.[citation needed] Prior to the "Behavioralist revolution", political science being a science at all was being disputed.[citation needed] Critics saw the study of politics as being primarily qualitative and normative, and claimed that it lacked a scientific method necessary to be deemed a science.[citation needed] Behavioralists would use strict methodology and empirical research to validate their study as a social science.[citation needed] Behavioralism is perhaps best defined by the man who is prominent for his role in first distinguishing it from behaviorism - David Easton A journal in this field is Political Behavior, described this way by its publisher, Springer
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