Cohn

Cohn In Cohn’s article on rational choice, it becomes apparent that a growing sub-group within political science becomes increasingly frustrated at the unpredictable nature of the field of political science. This mathematical approach to explaining political phenomena sought to create a model by which all political issues could be explained, through quantification. The movement of rational choice evolved from the few to a growing number of people. Cohn describes behaviorism as an alternate route to political science that never fully expanded but never went away, a prelude to the rational choice. In a sense, once a part of the political science community got a taste of a mathematical and modeled approach, those ideas stuck. Today, as with the example of the Perestroika meeting in San Francisco, there is clearly a shift in the internal dynamics of the political science community due to political, science, rational, choice, paradigm, community, approach, within, shift, scientists, revolution, research, never, movement, model, mathematical, ideas, growing, even, cannot, becomes, whole, view, unpredictable, universal, traditionalist, traditional, towards, today, time, through, threatened, theory, taste, takeover