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- Title
SCENARIOS FOR POLITICAL METAMORPHOSIS.
- Authors
Schmutzer, Manfred
- Abstract
It is a wide-spread custom in Comparative Political Science to look for relation between so-called "structures" and rather vaguely defined "processes", "functions" or "activities" related to these, in order to define and compare "political systems" and their "development". Most of these approaches are successors of the former institutionalism, functionalism and the separation of power theory. The model in the article represents a system which consists of elements that are connected by inputs and/or outputs of these elements. Since there is a need to develop a cybernetic model, it can be understood by inputs and outputs the flow of communications only, i.e. the flow of messages and not the flow of goods. The article aims to show that system analysis concepts and techniques can profitably be applied to problems in political science where they can yield information and insight hardly attainable by purely verbal arguments. The article gives precise definitions of the notions of ideology, change and stability, which although widely used, are at the moment hardly a sound basis for explications.
- Subjects
COMPARATIVE government; POLITICAL systems; POLITICAL communication; FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences); POLITICAL science; SELF-control
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1970, Vol 4, Issue 2, p385
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00199572