Easton's System Analysis Of Easton's Political System

The rudimental unit of Easton’s system analysis is ‘interaction’. Interaction is engendered from the demeanor of the members of the system when they play their role as such. When these myriad interactions, in the perception of the philomath, become a ‘set of interrelations’, they are considered as a ‘system’. Easton’s subject matter of analysis is only the set of political interactions.
There are four major premises or broader concepts of his flow-model or input-output analysis:
(i) System;
(ii) Environment;
(iii) Response
(iv) Feedback.
In the analysis of politics, one has to make utilization of these concepts.
1. System:
His system is a ‘political system’, the fundamental unit of analysis. It is a ‘system of interactions in any society through which binding or authoritative alloca¬tions are made and implemented.’ Easton is fascinated with studying political life which is visually perceived as a system of demeanor operating within and responding to its convivial environment while making binding allocations of values. The composition of binding and authoritative decisions distinguishes the political system from other systems (subsisting both within and outside the overall society) that form the environment of that political system.
Within this political system, there are many political
‘System’ is a very wide term, which includes all forms of formal and informal processes, interactions, functions, structures, values, deportment, etc. The political system allocates values for the whole society and its decisions stand obligatory. A ‘system’, thus, can be any set of variables, whatever be the form or intensity of interactions or interrelationship operating among them. A political system is a subsystem of the societal system, but it has a binding power of its own. Even within a political system, there are many