Contemporary Approaches in Political Science

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This paper looks at approaches to political science. The paper argues that the four approaches used in the discipline of political science (institutionalism, behaviouralism, public choice theory and political economy) are both compatible and often complementary.

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"Politics has always been of interest to human societies in some form or another. However, it has only been in the recent past that political science has become an academic discipline concerned with creating methods and approaches like the natural sciences (Dickerson and Flanagan 1-3). There are essentially four approaches that dominate the discipline of political science. These approaches are institutionalism, behaviouralism, public choice and political economy (Dickerson and Flanagan 4-7). These are not the only approaches but they are the most commonly used and are familiar to all political scientists. There has been a great deal of debate amongst political scientists about the relationships between these approaches."

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