Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications

Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular instance and examines implications of chaos theory when applied specifically to political science, economics, and sociology. The contributors to the book show that no single technique can be used to diagnose and describe all chaotic processes and identify the strengths and limitations of a variety of approaches.

The essays in this volume consider the application of chaos theory to such diverse phenomena as public opinion, the behavior of states in the international arena, the development of rational economic expectations, and long waves.

Contributors include Brian J. L. Berry, Thad Brown, Kenyon B. DeGreene, Dimitrios Dendrinos, Euel Elliott, David Harvey, L. Ted Jaditz, Douglas Kiel, Heja Kim, Michael McBurnett, Michael Reed, Diana Richards, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., and Alvin M. Saperstein.

L. Douglas Kiel and Euel W. Elliott are both Associate Professors of Government, Politics, and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.

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Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications

Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular instance and examines implications of chaos theory when applied specifically to political science, economics, and sociology. The contributors to the book show that no single technique can be used to diagnose and describe all chaotic processes and identify the strengths and limitations of a variety of approaches.

The essays in this volume consider the application of chaos theory to such diverse phenomena as public opinion, the behavior of states in the international arena, the development of rational economic expectations, and long waves.

Contributors include Brian J. L. Berry, Thad Brown, Kenyon B. DeGreene, Dimitrios Dendrinos, Euel Elliott, David Harvey, L. Ted Jaditz, Douglas Kiel, Heja Kim, Michael McBurnett, Michael Reed, Diana Richards, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., and Alvin M. Saperstein.

L. Douglas Kiel and Euel W. Elliott are both Associate Professors of Government, Politics, and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.

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Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications

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Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications

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Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular instance and examines implications of chaos theory when applied specifically to political science, economics, and sociology. The contributors to the book show that no single technique can be used to diagnose and describe all chaotic processes and identify the strengths and limitations of a variety of approaches.

The essays in this volume consider the application of chaos theory to such diverse phenomena as public opinion, the behavior of states in the international arena, the development of rational economic expectations, and long waves.

Contributors include Brian J. L. Berry, Thad Brown, Kenyon B. DeGreene, Dimitrios Dendrinos, Euel Elliott, David Harvey, L. Ted Jaditz, Douglas Kiel, Heja Kim, Michael McBurnett, Michael Reed, Diana Richards, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., and Alvin M. Saperstein.

L. Douglas Kiel and Euel W. Elliott are both Associate Professors of Government, Politics, and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472022526
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/10/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

L. Douglas Kiel and Euel W. Elliott are both Associate Professors of Government, Politics, and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Elliott

Euel

Kiel

L. Douglas

Part 1.

Chaotic Dynamics in Social Science Data

1.

Exploring Nonlinear Dynamics with a Spreadsheet: A Graphical View of Chaos for Beginners

Kiel

L. Douglas

Elliott

Euel

2.

Probing the Underlying Structure in Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to Spectral Analysis

McBurnett

Michael

3.

Measuring Chaos Using the Lyapunov Exponent

Brown

Thad A.

4.

The Prediction Test for Nonlinear Determinism

Jaditz

Ted

5.

From Individuals to Groups: The Aggregation of Votes and Chaotic Dynamics

Richards

Diana

Part 2.

Chaos Theory and Political Science

6.

Nonlinear Politics

Brown

Thad A.

7.

The Prediction of Unpredictability: Applications of the New Paradigm of Chaos in Dynamical Systems to the Old Problem of the Stability of a System of Hostile Nations

Saperstein

Alvin M.

8.

Complexity in the Evolution of Public Opinion

McBurnett

Michael

Part 3.

Chaos Theory and Economics

9.

Chaos Theory and Rationality in Economics

Rosser, Jr.

J. Barkley

10.

Long Waves 1790–1990: Intermittency, Chaos, and Control

Berry

Brian J. L.

Kim

Heja

11.

Cities as Spatial Chaotic Attractors

Dendrinos

Dimitrios S.

Part 4.

Implications for Social Systems Management and Social Science

12.

Field-Theoretic Framework for the Interpretation of the Evolution, Instability, Structural Change, and Management of Complex Systems

De Greene

Kenyon B.

13.

Social Science as the Study of Complex Systems

Harvey

David L.

Reed

Michael

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