Practice question · True or false
The behavioural revolution was universally accepted and ended methodological dispute in political science.
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- Consider what its critics argued about questions of justice and legitimacy.
- The reaction against it is still represented in every department.
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False
Why
False. The reaction argued that the questions worth asking — about justice, domination, legitimacy — are not settled by measurement, and that claiming neutrality smuggles in a politics. Both positions persist, and a student who assumes the argument was won will misread half the literature.
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