The Functional Analysis of Politics : An Introductory Discussion (Routledge Revivals)

The Functional Analysis of Politics (1967) discusses the feasibility of looking at political activities as constituting a ‘system’ and of the concepts of ‘structures’ and ‘functions’ as general categories of political activities. As well as expounding and criticising structural-function analysis, it applies it to political institutions, groups, and the notion of political development.