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behaviouralism

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behavioural approach

a theoretical and empirical approach within US POLITICAL SCIENCE which emphasizes the importance of sociological and psychological determinants of political actions and behaviour rather than confining attention, as is traditional in political science, to narrowly political processes, e.g. constitutional arrangements, legislative procedures. See POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR; compare BEHAVIOURISM.
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Skinner but fails to contend with the classic critique of behavioralism: that it simply doesn't work.
Behavioralism Seriously: A Response to Market Manipulation, 6 ROGER
Realism as a theoretical framework coupled with behavioralism, contributed to the initial push towards this conceptualization of the international system.
He also discusses the political dimension to research during the McCarthyite years, and reflects on the nature of American political science in the years after 1945, the period in which behavioralism (which privileges the influence of individuals over institutions) became dominant.
Yet what is conspicuously missing in historical research on this mid-century disciplinary remake--associated mostly even if somewhat inaccurately with the emergence of political behavioralism (1)--is an account of its rhetorical and discursive dimensions that, this essay sets out to argue, played by no means an insignificant role, either for its audience, or for the morale of the innovators themselves.
Kysar, Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation, 74 N.Y.U.
Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation, 112 HARV.
Behavioralism predicts that the status quo bias and people's tendency to engage in hyperbolic discounting will prevent many employees from enrolling in savings plans even when they would "really" prefer to save more.
(6.) Antonio Damasio, "A Legacy of Behavioralism in the Neurology of Emotion," interview with Siri Hustvedt for bigthink.
"Presidential Studies, Behavioralism, and Public Law." Presidential Studies Quarterly 44 (4): 758-78.
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