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Simulating the Micro-Macro Link: New Approaches to An Old Problem and An Application to Military Coups.
- Source :
- Sociological Methodology; 1999, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p43, 37p
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- The central issue of this paper is that one can develop emergent macro-dynamics from micro agent models and that the resulting models fall very much in the complexity-chaos line of the development of theory. The core theoretical contribution is a presentation of a clear, sensical, and potentially very powerful architecture for developing algorithms for the embedding of levels—the so-called master equation approach—and its comparison with alternative architectures. Finally, to illustrate the strategy and to demonstrate that the approach produces interesting and useful results, we give an application: a multilevel simulation model of military coups d'état, which is tested using data from Thailand between 1932 and 1992. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ALGORITHMS
SIMULATION methods & models
MECHANICS (Physics)
ARCHITECTURE
THEORY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00811750
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Methodology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6634380
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/0081-1750.00060