The Berkeley school has been characterized as returning political theory back in the direction of politics and political action, and away from efforts to center "scientific" models such as economics, psychology, sociology, and the natural sciences, specifically
behavioralism and
evolutionary psychology.[4][2]
References
^"In light of Pitkin's long association with Berkeley, it is no surprise that academic lore frequently connects her work to a 'Berkeley School' of political theory, said to have flourished in the 1960s and '70s.", Mathiowetz, 2016, p.5 of the PDF.
D. P. Mathiowetz, "The Berkeley School of Political Theory as Moment and as Tradition", PS: Political Science and Politics, June 1, 2017, available at
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n9196dc.
James P. Young, Reconsidering American Liberalism: The Troubled Odyssey of the Liberal Idea (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), 294–306.
Jason Reiner, "The Berkeley School of Political Theory: A Retrospective on an American Radicalism," Association for Political Theory 2013 Annual Meeting
D. P. Mathiowetz, 2016, "Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and the Dilemmas of Political Thinking", in Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Judgement, Action, available at
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x84g1jx .