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Transaction Analysis: The Impact of Operationalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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The study of integration provides a seemingly endless variety of theories, frameworks, approaches, definitions, terminology, and methodologies. An unfortunate consequence of this profusion and confusion is that research findings exhibit the same variety. For instance, studies of integration within the European Economic Community (EEC) can easily be divided into two types: those that find integration progressing steadily and even rapidly and those that find it stagnant.
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1 See, for example, the works of Lindberg, Leon N.: The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1963)Google Scholar; “Decision Making and Integration in the European Community,” International Organization, winter 1965 (Vol. 19, No. 1), pp. 56–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “Integration as a Source of Stress on the European Community System,” International Organization, Spring 1966 (Vol. 20, No. 2), pp. 233–265CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “The European Community as a Political System: Notes toward the Construction of a Model,” Journal of Common Market Studies, 06 1967 (Vol. 5, No. 4), pp. 344–387CrossRefGoogle Scholar. In this last work Lindberg attempts to explain some of the differences in the research findings through the development of subconcepts within “integration.” Such an attempt is definitely in order and complements the work here. Other studies which have found integration progressing in the EEC are Inglehart, Ronald, “An End to European Integration?” American Political Science Review, 03 1967 (Vol. 61, No. 1), pp. 91–105CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Inglehart, Ronald, “Trends and Nontrends in the Western Alliance: A Review,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 03 1968 (Vol. 12, No. 1), pp. 120–128CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Walter, Ingo, The European Common Market: Growth and Patterns of Trade and Production (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development) (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967)Google Scholar; Weissberg, Robert, “Nationalism, Integration, and French and German Elites,” International Organization, Spring 1969 (Vol. 23, No. 2), pp. 337–347CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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3 The basic article dealing with the null model is Savage, I. Richard and Deutsch, Karl W., “A Statistical Model of the Gross Analysis of Transaction Flows,” Econometrica, 07 1960 (Vol. 28, No. 3), PP. 551–572CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Literature has grown up around the model including Alker, Hayward R. Jr, “An IBM 709 Program for the Gross Analysis of Transaction Flows,” Behavioral Science, 10 1962 (Vol. 7, No. 4), pp. 498–499Google Scholar; Goodman, Leo A., “Statistical Methods for the Preliminary Analysis of Transaction Flows,” Econometrica, 01 1963 (Vol. 31, Nos. 1–2), pp. 197–208CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Goodman, Leo A., “A Short Computer Program for the Analysis of Transaction Flows,” Behavioral Science, 04 1964 (Vol. 9, No. 1), pp. 176–186CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The program presented by Goodman was used in the computation of relative acceptance coefficients in this article.
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7 The term “integration” is used in this article because the methodologies under consideration purport to measure “integration” or. some variant such as “community.” It is used with serious reservations because of its imprecision. Various conceptualizations of it exist, many of which appear valuable. Questions concerning the relative value of different conceptualizations and the relationship of transaction analysis to them must certainly be answered. Yet they are beyond the scope of this research note, and no attempt will be made to deal with them here.
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