Democracy a TBD The Calculus of Political Power by Mitch Ratcliffe
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etworks and their effects on human relationships have been the subject of intense study for only a few years, yet theorists propose a wide range of laws that describe the behavior of connected people, networked groups and organizations. These laws are double-edged blades for the aspiring social theorist since a “law” in the scientific sense when applied to groups of people is an appeal to reason in nature that may not exist in the population one is describing, since people can act irrationally or inconsistently, even in similar circumstances. The laws discussed in this essay are valuable because they are descriptive and can be used in retrospect to understand human events, but should not be understood as proscriptive of human behavior.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004