COMPLEX POLITICS AND THE ROLE OF AGENTS,

Abstract

It was previously suggested that for the purposes of talking about 'simple' politics (two people engaged in essentially face-to-face situations about matters which can be decided upon in a short period of time), a 'political' interaction could be described as one in which at least one party to the interaction is attempting to extract something (material or symbolic) from the other party or parties. It is now shown how simple political interactions may be put together or synthesized to form complex politics and, conversely, how complex politics may be analyzed into its various simple component parts.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0661256

Entities

People

  • Lewis A. Froman Jr

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.