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social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > epistemological foundations of political science > behavioralism
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > modern political theory > behavioralism
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > empirical political theory > behavioralism

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behavioralism  

Definition

  • Behavioralism was an intellectual movement that sought to make American political science more systematic and scientific. It began in the early 1950s as the movement of an insurgent minority wielding its vision of a transformed discipline as a manifesto for change. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Behavioralism]

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