Editing Behavioralism (section)

===Crick's critique===
British scholar [[Bernard Crick]] in ''The American Science of Politics'' (1959), attacked the behavioral approach to politics, which was dominant in the United States, but little known in Britain. He identified and rejected six basic premises and in each case argued the traditional approach was superior to behavioralism:
#research can discover uniformities in human behavior,
#these uniformities could be confirmed by empirical tests and measurements,
#quantitative data was of the highest quality, and should be analyzed statistically,
#political science should be empirical and predictive, downplaying the philosophical and historical dimensions,
#value-free research was the ideal, and
#social scientists should search for a macro theory covering all the social sciences, as opposed to applied issues of practical reform.<ref>"Crick, Bernard," in John Ramsden, ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century British Politics'' (2002) p 174</ref>