Introduction Chapter One: David Easton is an Interpretivist Chapter Two: The First Behavioral Political System - An Origins Story Chapter Three: What is the Good Political System? Chapter Four: China - Assessing the Operational Goodness of the Chinese Political System Chapter Five: David Easton’s Plan for Organizing the Political Science Profession Conclusion: An Exciting Future of Research BOOK SUMMARY This book shows how to make Political Science relevant to any government’s policy making process. That begins with defining, for the first time ever , what makes a “good political system.” David Easton’s well known theory of the political system is descriptive; that is, it tells us what the elements of a political system are: input, conversion, output, and feedback, in a political environment. Now, that description has been transformed into a specific standard for assessing a functioning political system’s Operational Goodness. An engineer can assess...
Working to build a coherent alternative to the dominant positivistic paradigm in political science.