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Conceptual Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Stephen M. Shaffer
Stephen M. Shaffer
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University of Michigan
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Approaches to the study of international relations employ a wide variety of concepts and indicators. The interrelationships among these concepts often are specified in conceptual schemes, models, or theories. This supplementary issue of World Politics presents several approaches to international relations theory which utilize familiar concepts, such as decision-making, crisis, and interdependence, and also concepts (frequently borrowed from other disciplines) that are less familiar, e.g., entrepreneurial and consumer roles, free riders, and externalities. The diversity of approaches and the variety of models specified by the contributors led the co-editors to commission an index focusing on concepts and the variables used to tap the concepts (indicators) rather than a more traditional listing of names, places, and events.

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World Politics , Volume 24 , supplement S1: Theory and Policy in International Relations , Spring 1972 , pp. 248 - 266
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1972

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1 A functional relationship of this sort is a develoomental sequence in which there is no direct effect of input on outcome. Rather, the input causes the intervening variables which in turn cause the outcome. See Hyman, Htrbert, Survey Design and Analysis: Principles, Cases, and Procedures (Glencoe, Ill. 1955), 254–63.Google Scholar

2 This is what is often termed a nonadditive relationship which states that the effect of the input varies as a function of the level of the intervening variables. The input thus can affect the outcome directly or influence the outcome via the mediation of the intervening factors. For a discussion of nonadditivity, see Blalock, Hubert, “Theory Building and the Statistical Concept of Interaction,” American Sociological Review, XXX (June 1965), 374–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar