The Reconstitution of Political Theory: David Easton, Behavioralism, and the Long Road to System (2013)
Gunnell, John G. (Author)
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Volume: 49
Pages: 190-210
During the last half of the twentieth century, the concept of system was arguably the most important concept in the theoretical repertoire of the discipline of American political science. Although systems analysis was broadly employed in the behavioral sciences, David Easton's work was particularly influential in the study of politics. This is in part because he attempted to develop a distinct account of the political system that was not theoretically subservient either to general systems theory or to conceptions of the social system such as that advanced by Talcott Parsons. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to Easton's theory, the origins and evolution of the system concept in his work have not been carefully reconstructed and analyzed.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Gunnell, John G.;
(2013)
The Reconstitution of Political Theory: David Easton, Behavioralism, and the Long Road to System
(/isis/citation/CBB001213779/)
Book
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter;
(2005)
Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America
(/isis/citation/CBB000520048/)
Book
Orth, Karin;
Oberkrome, Willi;
(2010)
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1920--1970: Forschungsförderung im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik
(/isis/citation/CBB001023723/)
Book
Hunter Heyck;
(2015)
Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science
(/isis/citation/CBB592141934/)
Article
Fontaine, Philippe;
(2010)
Stabilizing American Society: Kenneth Boulding and the Integration of the Social Sciences, 1943--1980
(/isis/citation/CBB001034635/)
Article
Sonenscher, Michael;
(2009)
Ideology, Social Science and General Facts in Late Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought
(/isis/citation/CBB001030362/)
Article
Hasselberg, Ylva;
(2013)
Who Killed the Ideologies or Were They Just Resting? Tingsten, Technocratism and Ideology in Sweden 1930--1970
(/isis/citation/CBB001201213/)
Article
Thibaud Boncourt;
Paulo Ravecca;
(2020)
Power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas
(/isis/citation/CBB320781687/)
Book
Behnegar, Nasser;
(2003)
Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics
(/isis/citation/CBB000301874/)
Book
Mazower, Mark;
(2012)
Governing the World: The History of an Idea
(/isis/citation/CBB001321238/)
Thesis
Duda, John;
(2012)
The Idea of Self-Organization between Science and Politics
(/isis/citation/CBB001567405/)
Article
Wilson, Rick K.;
(2012)
Elinor Ostrom (1933--2012)
(/isis/citation/CBB001320469/)
Article
Winterer, Caroline;
(2010)
Model Empire, Lost City:Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America
(/isis/citation/CBB001030563/)
Chapter
Engerman, David C.;
(2011)
Die Ursprünge der amerikanischen Sowjetologie
(/isis/citation/CBB001211830/)
Article
Roberto Sala;
(2017)
Verwissenschaftlichung des Sozialen – Politisierung der Wissenschaft? Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in der Geschichtsschreibung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
(/isis/citation/CBB221274349/)
Book
Guilhot, Nicolas;
(2011)
The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB001213814/)
Book
Cravens, Hamilton;
(2004)
The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age
(/isis/citation/CBB000640897/)
Article
Dominic Lusinchi;
(2018)
‘The Great Fiasco’ of the 1948 Presidential Election Polls: Status Recognition and Norms Conflict in Social Science
(/isis/citation/CBB838457906/)
Article
Poirier, Maben Walter;
(2011)
Michael Polanyi and the Social Sciences
(/isis/citation/CBB001034407/)
Book
Jackson, John P.;
(2001)
Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation
(/isis/citation/CBB000201428/)
Be the first to comment!