Abstract
In seeking a position from which all political phenomena might be viewed, political scientists are frequently blocked by the intransigence of legal materials. Some scientists impatiently consign legal data to the age of alchemy. Most of the same people, probably for similar reasons, banish values as unfit company to behavioral science. Certainly those who attend strictly to behavior without concern for evaluational and legal contexts can answer questions that for long were buried beneath social and legal myth. Yet this primitive progress of political science should not continue indefinitely. New modes of assimilating legal and evaluative data are suggested as cures for naive behaviorism.
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