Compare-Theory-Report All fields 003 | Page Format |
| Number sort to group items | 00.a |
| Class-Defined | . |
| Theory-name | Generic Theory |
| Theory-Purpose | 1.Theories are collections or sets of Laws Pertaining to a particular Behavior or |
| phenomenon. 2. For K.Waltz better = Theories Explain Laws. Laws are "facts of |
| Observation", Theories are "speculative processes introduced to explain them" |
| Note | 1..Theories contain at least one theoretical assumption. Since not factual - can ask if |
| useful.2. Must be evaluated in terms of what claim to explain. 3. As general |
| explanatory system, cannot account for particularities.-Waltz -ToIP p. 118 |
| Definition-power | NA.= Not Applicable for Power |
| Measure-success | Is the Theory internally constant and will it tell us things we would not know in its |
| absence. Depict a domain. Displays its organization & connections among parts, |
| compare with observations, |
| Motivation-Actors | . |
| Foreign-relations-internat-sys: | . |
| National-Interest | . |
| System-Change-Stability | . |
| Prescriptions | . |
| Reliability | . |
| Literature-Defined | . |
| Theoretical-Proposition | . |
| Units-Analysis | . |
| Instruments | . |
| Modern-Theorists | . |
| Modern-Works | . |
| Post-Cold-War | . |
| Limitation | . |
| Reference | . |
| link | . |
| Sort-Catagories | . |
| What-necesary-assumption: | . |
| How-test | Are expected behaviors and outcomes repeatedly found where the conditions |
| contemplated by the theory obtain? -Waltz -ToIP p. 123 Choose hard case situations, |
| for example, in which parties have strong reasons to behave counter to predictions. |
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