EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Political science in ancient times had its interesting remarks in proposing political thoughts of political philosophers in each era that were resulted from the evolution of social change from Greek period up to the middle of 19th century (1850 A.D.) Studying in political science was, thus, searching intellectualities by various political philosophers in analyzing and evaluating the power structures and distributions according to the ethical criteria. As a results, political philosophers had their capacity in using their intellectualities to freely express their individual political thoughts and interests that reflected the occurring problems in each era. The content of political science in these ancient times was named by David Easton as universalism. In such circumstances, the content of political science was not specialized but depended upon the interest of each sage. The content of political science, thus, varies according to each changing era. However, the goal of political science in the era of behaviorism focused on empirical theories specially in 1968 A.D. A group of political scientists suggested in reviewing the goal of political science by dividing into a short-term and long-term goals. The short-term goal focused on the application of knowledge for solving various problems in political societies while the long-term goal focused on the creation of empirical knowledge or post-behaviorism up to present.
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