Inter-disciplinary approach

The charge that the behavioural approach by focusing too much on other social sciences tends to compromise the boundary of political science is not valid. After all, politics should not be viewed independently of social factors and influences. Political sociology, for example, has helped in the understanding of the context in which institutions and formal political organs work. Again, to understand how caste (sociology) influences politics and electoral equations, or how the demand for minimum support price and subsidized electricity (economics), etc. by farmers influences politics, or how the emphasis on religious identity (psychology) shapes nationalism, we must turn to different disciplines of social sciences.