ABSTRACT
Behavioralism provided a salutary emphasis upon political factors other than the governmental forms. The examination and evaluation of policies have been handed over to the journalists and politicians, and the formulation of a judgment in the name of knowledge is considered incompatible with the canons of a self-imposed scientific objectivity. It is these trends that account for the state of the discipline as a whole, and they affect particularly the study of comparative politics, or the comparative study of politics. The central focus of politics and of the study of comparative politics is the governmental institutions and political elites, their role, their levels of performance and nonperformance. Scientism constitutes the effort to measure as accurately as possible the weight, scope, and persistence of the input factors, on the purely gratuitous assumption that they are or can be linked causally to political phenomena.
