The main defects and problems of behaviorism politics

Behaviorist politics has also been criticized from all sides since its appearance. Critics believe that behaviorism politics has great limitations: it pays too much attention to the form of politics and reveals the essence of politics; Pay too much attention to methodology and ignore the study of practical problems; Pay too much attention to micro-analysis and ignore the results of macro-theory; Too much praise for natural science methods and technologies, and rejection of historical philosophy; Trying to exclude the value component, only explaining "what" and not studying "how"; Only seek to explain the reality, not to transform it; In particular, the so-called positivism has great subjective factors. These defects greatly limit the development of behaviorism politics. Although behaviorist politics accused traditional politics of being helpless in the face of real politics, the fact that the international political situation was turbulent in the 1960s and the political crisis at home and abroad proved that behaviorist politics could not undertake the heavy responsibility of scientifically explaining and solving real political problems. Since then, the study of behaviorism politics has gradually declined, and post-behaviorism politics has risen.