Some Contributions of Mathematical Reasoning to the Study of Politics

Fagen, Richard R.

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“…10 In 1961 Fagen attempted to relate the empirical evidence of the previous decade to five continuing concerns of political scientists. 11 These were (1) normative theory and the democratic process, (2) the study of power, (3) international politics and strategy, (4) organization theory and administration and (5) judicial behavior. The sentiment of the times and the prevailing attitude of the general social science community can be seen in Fagen's introduction to his survey.…”

Section: Mathematics and Social Sciencesmentioning

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Mathematics and Educational Administration

McNamara

1972

Journal of Educational Administration

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This paper is devoted to the topic of how mathematics might be more efficiently used in educational administration. The position taken here is that mathematics is a branch of philosophy whose subject matter is a set of abstract entities and identified operational rules. It is a vocabulary of symbols that can be used to label objects and, more importantly, a set of grammatical rules for using the vocabulary. The paper begins with a review of some recent developments reported in the social science literature on the uses of mathematics in political science, sociology and economics, and ends with some illustrations of how these developments could lead to similar applications in both the practice and theory domains of educational administration.

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Section: Mathematics and Social Sciencesmentioning

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Mathematics and Educational Administration

McNamara

1972

Journal of Educational Administration

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Mathematical models in the social and life sciences: a selected bibliography

Olinick

1981

Mathematical Modelling

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Toward a unified model of human information behavior: an equilibrium perspective

Liu

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a unified model of human information behavior (HIB) for integrating classical constructs and reformulating the structure of HIB theory. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs equilibrium perspective from partial equilibrium theory to conceptualization and deduction, starting from four basic assumptions. Findings This paper develops two models to incorporate previous HIB research approaches into an equilibrium-analysis-oriented information supply-demand (ISD) framework: first, the immediate-task/problem-based and everyday life information-seeking (ELIS)-sense-making approaches are incorporated into the short-term ISD model; second, the knowledge-construction-oriented and ability-based HIB research approaches are elaborated by the long-term ISD model. Relations among HIB theories are illustrated via the method of graphical reasoning. Moreover, these two models jointly reveal the connection between information seeking in immediate problematic situations and long-term ability improvement. Originality/value The equilibrium framework enables future research to explore HIB from three perspectives: stages: group the classical concepts (e.g. anomalous state of knowledge, uncertainty) into different stages (i.e. start state, process, goal state) and see how they interact with each other within and across different stages; forces: explore information behaviors and information-related abilities as information supply and demand forces, and see how different forces influence each other and jointly motivate people to pursue the equilibriums between outside world and mental model; and short term and long term: study the connections between short-term information seeking and long-term ability improvement at both theoretical and empirical levels.

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Some Contributions of Mathematical Reasoning to the Study of Politics

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Mathematics and Educational Administration

Mathematics and Educational Administration

Mathematical models in the social and life sciences: a selected bibliography

Toward a unified model of human information behavior: an equilibrium perspective

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