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Like the perfect animal, there's no such thing as the perfect institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Susanne Lohmann
Susanne Lohmann
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90077 [email protected] www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/lohmann/
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Abstract

Models of biological and political systems share in common an irreconcilable tension. They must extract the essential features of the system to make its workings comprehensible to the human observer, and yet the omitted underbrush is essential to the workings of the system. A good model accommodates both the workings of the system and the cognitive makeup of the observer.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1065 - 1066
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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