Open AccessA Theoretical Appraisal of Political Behavior: Actors, Processes and Consequences
Author(s) -
Hamd Ejaz
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of law and social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-6270
pISSN - 2709-2283
DOI - 10.52279/jlss.01.02.5260
Subject(s) - voting behavior , political socialization , politics , political communication , subject (documents) , political culture , alienation , discipline , sociology , systems theory in political science , political science , positive economics , social science , epistemology , voting , political economy , american political science , law , economics , philosophy , library science , computer science
The study of political behavior constitutes a vast subject. Political behavior has many subjected to multiple paradigm shifts of research and the outcome has always been a formation of new theories which explain how the political behavior taking place at all levels of analysis- global, regional, and national and individual levels, has evolved. Political behavior has been sometimes oversimplified to include behavior which is related to legislation in one way or another. It is for this purpose, that this paper differentiates between ‘social’, ‘economic’ and ‘political’ behavior and points out how there can be multiple areas of convergences between all of them. Mostly, this paper presents the various modern theoretical precepts related to political behavior in a holistic manner so as to cover the topic by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach. Therefore, the subject in question, borrows concepts from a range of disciplines including political sociology and political psychology to explain how socialization is rooted in political culture and how it is transformed into ‘public will’- as quoted by Rousseau through the processes of voting. The paper will also seek to explain the possible degenerate forms of political behavior including political violence, genocide and political alienation.