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Structure and Agent System: Socio-Political
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System/Subsystem
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Socio-political
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Organizing Structure
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Social fabric
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Stocks
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Levels of human well-being and institutional development (human and social capital)
Cultural structures
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Flows
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Social expenditures
Value change
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Key Aggregate
Relationships
(illustrative, not comprehensive)
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Growth in literacy and human development;
Democratic development, state failure
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Key Agent-Class Behavior
Relationships
(illustrative, not comprehensive)
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Government efforts to develop human capital through spending on health, education, R&D
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Unlike the use of cohort-component structures in demographics and of markets and social accounting matrices for economics, there is no standard organizing structure that is widely used for representing socio-political systems. In the context of the TERRA project, IFs developed a multi-component approach to structure that might be called the "social fabric" (a la Robert Pestel).
Although representation of agent-class behavior would be of special interest in a socio-political module, most relationships in IFs remain at the level of aggregate specifications.