Indicators for America's Linkages with the Changing World Environment

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ID9766217
AuthorsBruce Russett (corresponding author), Bruce M Russett
Year1970
Volume388
Issue1
Pages82-96
Publication date1970-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271627038800109
OpenAlexW2163103980
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Many variables are thought to be relevant to international politics. Better theory is needed to increase parsimony, but meanwhile a tour d'horizon of possible data-gathering efforts is offered. Collection costs could be eased by sampling nations according to level of development, region, or policy importance, and many highly correlated measures could be eliminated. A list of indicators for American linkages to the world is given, with indicators distinguished between stock and flow; over-all linkages and links to particular states; and ratios of foreign links to domestic equivalents. The world environment should be documented according to national-attribute data on politics and social conditions; the world-wide distribution of value-achievement; value-aspirations; and the level and pattern of linkages of a world society. All indicators are labeled as to current availability or potential cost of collection. More effort should go to collating and distributing existing information than to new data-gathering, except for variables of exceptional theoretical interest

Data collection · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sampling (signal processing · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Stock (firearms · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Mathematics

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