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Traditional  Modern Behaviouralist before WW2, europe, philosophical focus on state, constitutions philosophical, historical, empirical legal-institutional method for comparative post WW2, America, scientific American Political Science Association study on human behaviour rather than institution scientific rather than philosophical behavioural turned to post-behavioural  revival of philosophy in europe: post modernism, critical school, feminism Theda Skopol : bring the state back in fear of discipline losing importance since new frontiers like environment, family being priority under behaviouralism Approaches in political science Traditional  Philosophical Historical based on Socrates - Theory of Knowledge Rawls, Berlin,       Dante Germino   , Leo Strauss Socrates : dialectics Plato : father of political philosophy idea of ideal state oldest normative (justice, liberty, equality, etc) criticised by behaviouralist wanted to make political scienc...

 Approaching a competitive exam :  A competitive exam may be objective or  subjective with an additional interview stage. Objective exam :  answer is given. One needs to just recall. Recall the most appropriate answer. Subjective : One needs to reproduce knowledge in given time. Devise tools to aid it. Interview :  Interaction to establish profesional competency. Technical know how as well as see suitability to the work culture. This should be our broad approach and we should orient ourself as per the need. Remember the foundational testing is same in all forms. Only the means varies. Just : Read, Recall and Reproduce.