System Effectsrevisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Jervis (0000-0002-1896-6538, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-415 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811.2012.767048 |
| OpenAlex | W1974518301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 29 |
System effects often stand in the way of attempts to come up with simple explanations of politics. Systems are often characterized by nonlinearities, where an effect is more than the sum of the effects of the actions taken by multiple actors. Another system effect is feedback, where the effect of actions is to amplify the problem the actions are intended to solve. There may also be indirect effects, where an incidental aspect of an action becomes more important (to other actors) than the primary intention; contingencies, such that an effect is not inevitable but depends on idiosyncratic or even anti-strategic initial actions; interaction effects, where the behavior of an actor changes the environment of action, so that other actors do not respond as anticipated; and unintended consequences, where the long-term or secondary effects of an action differ from the intended effect. Each of these system effects can frustrate scholarly attempts to understand political behavior using simple models of action, and, even more, can frustrate the attempts of political decision makers to predict the effects of their actions
Action (physics · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Political system · Politics · Positive economics · Simple (philosophy · Term (time · Unintended consequences · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Unknown Enemy
The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world
The transformation of targeted killing and international order
The Positional Problem in civil wars
Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity
The European Union
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems
System Effectsand the Problem of Prediction
Politics and Political Science
Micromotives and macrobehavior
Wildlife conservation
Dominoes and Bandwagons
The Land Scape of History
System Effects
Essay
The logic of images in international relations.
Friedrich von Holstein
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower
India's Nuclear Odyssey
The Evolution of U.S.-Indian Ties
Blasts from the Past
Realism, Neoliberalism, and Cooperation
Preventing Enemy Coalitions
Preventing the ‘Smiling Buddha’
Theory of international politics
Should “Systems Thinkers” Accept the Limits on Political Forecasting or Push the Limits
We Can Never Study Merely One Thing
The Complexity of System Effects
Jervis on Complexity Theory
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |