A Program of Research on National Estimates
Abstract
The work completed extended and validated successfully the measures of the capacity of political systems and national capabilities from developing to developed countries. As in our previous work, the measures for developed countries were tested by monitoring their performance in international and military conflicts, and the measures were found valid. New measures of the capacity of political systems in peacetime (i.e. not under stress) were developed. These new measures were called indices of political costs. Such measures were validated by an extensive experiment exploring the effects of 'political development' on vital rates of national populations. Moreover, preparatory work has been completed for further research to be done on the performance of the available measures as indicators of stability/instability of political systems. Some of the work in this phase can be considered a first exploration of how to go about pinning down a quantitative measure of the capability of political systems to expend their own capacity given development of the economic system. Moreover, preparations have been completed to test the relationship between popular support and the capacity of the political system. Finally, and most importantly, preparatory work has been done for the attempt to extend the measures of capacity of political systems to the communist nations of Eastern Europe and the USSR.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA111065
Entities
People
- A. F. K. Organski
- Jacek Kugler
Organizations
- University of Michigan