Contemporary perspectives on politics

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS is a survey of ons and theories in the behavioral sciences that in recent years heve come to have particular application to the study of politics The survey is broad in scope and aims to be representative of the behavion approaches being applied to political phenomena The stude of Political Behavior or General Social Science may use this hook as primary source, and more generally, it will provide con temporary analytical perspectives opby the behavioral aspects of traditional subject matter in political science and other disciplines. The concepts and theories discussed in this book may be used for the analysis of events and behavior in such subfields as American Government, Comparative Politics, and International Relations.

It has become customary for students of political behavior to focus on such phenomena as (a) groups, (b) human individuals, and (c) political systems. This book is organized to examine in se quence these phenomena and the concepts usually associated with them. Thus, this survey begins with an examination of group and organization theories, leading to such associated behavioral con septs as cooperation, communication, information, linguistics,