The Origins of Political Behavior, and the First Political System

This working paper has now become Chapter Two of my new book, Normative Political Science - An Exciting New Way to do Poli Sci Research. This paper/Chapter discusses the possible origins of the pattern of political behavior that constitutes a "political system" as Easton defines it. Easton intended his theory of the political system to guide empirical research, but he didn't address the question as to how the first political system could have emerged. Nor did he see that the conceptual framework he wrote about could also be used as a standard by which to assess how well a political system is working. The idea of operational goodness is developed in the book. See more at, https://a.co/d/9jdoVUg