![]() ![]() Almond claims that all these were previously called institutions. Every political system has several institutions such as political party, legislature, executive, judiciary, etc. What is structure? Here the word structure is used in a sense different from sociological sense. He says that though there are differences between developed and developing countries so far as structures are concerned, the structures perform almost similar functions. ![]() ![]() In his noted work The Politics of the Developing Areas Almond has drawn our attention to an interesting issue. He has, in fact, stressed that every political system has some structures and these structures perform certain functions meant for it. It is so called because Almond has explained his views keeping these structures of political system in mind. Almond’s model is popularly known to the students of political science as structural functionalism. In fact there are a number of political scientists who are actively associated with general systems theory and one of them is Gabriel Almond who died in 2003 at the age of 91. But Easton is not the only political scientist who can be credited with being associated with this model or concept. We have already analysed in details the general systems theory as propounded by David Easton which is also called Easton model. ![]()
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