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Behavioralism and

Political Science

Rana Ahmed-Political Science- Fourth Year-
rana.farooq2020@feps.edueg

Political science is closely related to behavioral theory, and And the question that occurs after the discussion of
this connection results in several things, including a constant this paragraph: does this mean that it is necessary to
attempt to reach the degree and status of Natural Sciences completely abandon the behavioral theory in order to
and remove everything that prevents us from doing so, in solve this problem But if you do this, you will lose the
order to reach that status, values are separated from facts. Is ability to connect the phenomena and know the extent
this a blessing or a curse. to which the variables affect each other, and therefore
we will lose the ability
Being too involved in separating values from facts and We also need to reach generalizations that make it
completely disposing of them leads to reaching a state of easier for us to develop general laws that help us
nihilism, that is, the inability to sense and distinguish, and as understand and simplify the events taking place in the
soon as a person or researcher reaches this state, he becomes world around us.
isolated and does not interact with reality. he cannot explain
or predict the phenomenon, but only describe it, and in some So what is the way if it is dispensed with
cases, it is difficult for the researcher to describe it as well. I find it difficult and even impossible to completely
this can be cited from the state of political science in Egypt abandon the behavioral theory, but we can recognize the
during the January revolution, no one foresaw the outbreak importance of values and work on studying them in a
of a revolution in the first place, and no one expected that scientific way so that we can integrate them or at least
this revolution would be with such overwhelming force that recognize their existence without denying them
it would be able to overthrow the regime, also, if we look at And that's because I believe in the impossibility of the
the term Arab Spring itself, we will find that it was launched absence of values from people, how this is the main
from the West, and the Arabs did not even have a role In engine and motivation for some of the directions we
naming the phenomenon. take, the choices we make, and the actions we do.