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25/10/2007

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Buro Empty, Amsterdam

Behaviouralism and Time-Space Analysis

Franco Angeloni _ Arthur Zalewski _ Bauhaus Guerrilla _ Kick van Homeijer
Josef Albers Research Institute _ Alexander Hempel _ Copy Supplement
Morten Andersen _ Lukas Gothman _ Documenta 13 THE MARKET
Peter Luining _ Nie Pastille

A number of artists were asked to interpret and give form to the citation here below.
The results of this analysis is on display at
Buro Empty Gallery - Independent Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands from
October 26 thru November 17, 2007

Citing from ''State and Society'' by Dr. Balihar Sanghera.

The behaviouralist approach:Behaviouralists sought to shift the focus of political sociology towards a micro level analysis, concerned with individual and group political behaviour within civil society, and away from theorising of macro problems, such as the distribution of power between elite groups within the state. Behaviouralists insisted that valid conclusions about political behaviour could only be made from the objective analysis of hard data such as statistics on how people voted in elections, as opposed to abstract speculation about the nature of the state.

Some behaviouralists even dispensed with the concept of the state altogether, and advocated the use of an alternative concept, the ‘political system’.

However, critics suggested that behaviouralists’ objective analysis of the facts masked a firm normative commitment to the development and growth of the capitalist nation-state. Behaviouralism stressed that liberal democracy was the highest possible form of political system, and consequently should be adopted by developing countries if they wished to emulate the success of the West.

For behaviouralists, the success of liberal political systems was due to the maintenance of a distinct civil society characterised by value consensus, a common citizenship and the wealth created by capitalists enterprises. If the concept of the state was to be retained, it served a functional role as a neutral, regulatory institution that helped to stabilise civil society.

Yet, the behaviouralists ignored to the critical development of the state after 1945. The state had become more significant, and its intervention into civil society was essential for growth and stability. By ignoring the state, many of the most important questions of political sociology remained unanswered by the behaviouralists due to the weakness of their tendency towards mindless empiricism.

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