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Discuss the structural-functional analysis of politics.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Social Movements

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Structural-functional analysis asks what functions a political system must perform to persist, and which structures perform them. Turned into a tool of comparative politics by Gabriel A. Almond, it made unlike systems comparable. Its critics argued that the same design also carried a bias towards stability and the West.

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  • Value and Indian Application
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