Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
Who was one of the first among modern political scientists to challenge the traditional approaches?
AFreud
BLasswell ✓ Correct
CBernard Crick
DCharles Merriam
Correct answer: (B) Lasswell — Harold Lasswell was among the first modern political scientists to challenge the traditional approaches, so the answer is Lasswell.
Explanation
★Harold Lasswell was among the first modern political scientists to challenge the traditional approaches, so the answer is Lasswell.
★A leader of the Chicago School, he pressed for a scientific study of politics.
★He brought psychology and empirical method into the study of power.
★His work asked who gets what, when and how in society.
★He helped lay the ground for the later behavioural movement.
★So this early break from tradition is credited here to Lasswell.
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