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“The conceptual orientation is one that stems from the...
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fundamental decision to view political life as a system of behavior. Its major and gross unit of analysis will be the political system”
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The theory of systems analysis...
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Explains the ability to manage stress and the ability of any political system to continue to exist.
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Easton constructed a theory to...
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Examine the political system as a whole.
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The behavioral aspect of the new movement in political research reflects...
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The search for stabled units for understanding human behavior in its political aspects
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Behavioral research is a new departure in social research in that it...
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Tends to be analytic (divided into basic principles), not substantive (having solid basis).
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The system will be political life as a system of behavior and the environment surrounding it is...
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Open to influences from it. There will be response from the flow and feedback will result in stress and influence.
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Concepts are neither true nor false; they are...
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Only more or less useful
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To analyze any one set of interactions, it will be mandatory to....
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Abstract them from the whole matrix of behavior in which they occur
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In explaining the functioning of society we have viewed political interactions as...
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A separate system from religious, economic, etc.
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Political interactions are distinguished from all other social interactions since...
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they are oriented towards authoritative allocation of values for a society.
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The concept of boundaries separating a system and its environment is an essential analytic tool for two reasons:
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(1) simplify, interpret, and understand the way environmental changes are communicated to the political system (2) to represent a strategic step toward the simplification of reality, an essential condition for any scientific research
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A political system is an open in the sense that it is...
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Exposed in varying degrees to concepts that occur in its environment
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Political life is a responding system that constitutes a set of behaviors that are able to....
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respond to the influences acting on them.
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The persistence of political systems through their own responding actions poses ...
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The central question for theoretical inquiry
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Historically whenever vast economic and social changes have occurred the...
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· political system has also been transformed
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