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System Approach

The document discusses the system approach in political science. It explains that David Easton was the first to conceive of politics as a political system, where all political phenomena are interrelated and affect each other. A political system involves inputs from society in the form of demands and support, as well as outputs in the form of decisions and policies made in response to inputs. There is also a conversion process that transforms inputs into outputs. Feedback also plays a role by communicating the performance of the system back to itself for future course correction. Easton developed a diagram to illustrate the political system. While a political system exists within a larger social system, it specifically covers the political aspects of a society.

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System Approach

The document discusses the system approach in political science. It explains that David Easton was the first to conceive of politics as a political system, where all political phenomena are interrelated and affect each other. A political system involves inputs from society in the form of demands and support, as well as outputs in the form of decisions and policies made in response to inputs. There is also a conversion process that transforms inputs into outputs. Feedback also plays a role by communicating the performance of the system back to itself for future course correction. Easton developed a diagram to illustrate the political system. While a political system exists within a larger social system, it specifically covers the political aspects of a society.

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Political science -I

System approach:
• It is one of the modern approaches.
• System means a set of interrelated elements.
• all social phenomena, including the political phenomena, are interrelated and
they affect each other.
• David Easton: he is the first person who conceives politics as a political
system.
• It means that David Easton analyses politics from the point of political system.
• For David Easton, political system is the system of interaction in any society
through binding and ‘authoritative allocations of value are made and
implemented’.
System approach-
• Authoritative allocation of values: every society has some mechanism
having authority through which things which are valuable can be
distributed among individuals.
• In a political system, there is Input.
• Input: any pressure from society to the political system.
• Input has 2 parts:
1. demand-any demand from a collective group to the political system.
(goods, services, health etc.)
2. Support-support that system gets from the society. (obedience to law,
respect for authority).
System approach-
• There is also output:
• Output is the decisions and policies taken in response to input.
• Conversion process:
• The process of converting inputs into output
• Feedback:
• The process in which the performance of the system is communicated
back to it.
• Feedback is essential for the future course of action in the political
system.
David Easton’s political System
diagram:
System approach-
• Besides political system, there exists social system, economic system,
cultural system etc.
• But social system is wider than political system.
• Social system includes wider aspects of human life; but political
system covers the political aspects in a society.
Approach to political science:
+Traditional approach:
Historical approach
Legal approach
Philosophical approach
Institutional approach
+Modern approach:
Behavioural approach
Post behavioural approach
Marxist approach
System approach

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