approaches in Political science

Question 1

what are the main approaches

Answer 1

institutional and behavioural

Question 2

what is the institutional approach

Answer 2

dominant in the 1920s

legal and political institutions their roles and responsibilities

Question 3

limitations of institutional approach

Answer 3

limited to formal, statutory institutions and cannot describe informal institutions
could not adequately serve in a colonised setting
too narrow, myopic
ignored many political phenomenas

Question 4

what does Neil Chatterjee say about institutional approach

Answer 4

Politics of the governed
IA is not concerned with reality on legal descriptions
legal vs substantive
legal prescription was the entirety of the political figure

Question 5

what is the behavioural approach

Answer 5

social sciences wanted to emulate natural sciences
desired universality across time and space
did not want to spatio- temporally ( ideographically) limited
wanted the social sciences to become more scientific by using statistical methods
validation and falsification of methodology

Question 6

what is the antithesis to the institutionalist approach

Answer 6

behavioural approach
felt that institutionalist approach left too many questions unanswered i.e how hitler came to power in a democratic context

Question 7

what is a key feature of the behaviouralist school

Answer 7

people inhabiting the institutions are as important as the legal institutions themselves

Question 8

what falls under the quantitative category

Answer 8

statistical
frequency, data, patterns, regularity
cannot explain why and what the impact is

Question 9

qualitative category

Answer 9

philosophical

values, judgments, norms