Complete the account of the discipline.
Lasswell defined politics as who gets what, when and ______. Easton defined the political system as the ______ allocation of values for a society. The push towards measurement and survey data in the 1950s is called the ______ revolution, and the three organising concepts of the syllabus are power, the state and the political ______.
Word bank: how · authoritative · behavioural · system · binding · comparative
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- The first is the last word of a famous four-part phrase.
- The third blank names a movement, not a method.
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Lasswell defined politics as who gets what, when and how. Easton defined the political system as the authoritative allocation of values for a society. The push towards measurement and survey data in the 1950s is called the behavioural revolution, and the three organising concepts of the syllabus are power, the state and the political system.
The four blanks are the vocabulary the rest of the unit assumes. Note that Lasswell and Easton are not rivals: Lasswell names what is at stake and Easton names what makes the allocation political rather than merely economic.
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