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    Level of Analysis

    The term "level of analysis" is used in the social sciences to


    point to the location, size, or scale of a research target.
    "Level of analysis" is distinct from the term "unit of
    observation" in that the former refers to a more or less
    integrated set of relationships while the latter refers to the
    distinct unit from which data have been or will be
    gathered. Together, the unit of observation and the level of
    analysis help define the population of a research
    enterprise.
    In political science, level of analysis is generally divided into three
    categories - individual, state, and international system. Although,
    the three levels of analysis cannot describe every effect and there
    is unlimited number of levels between the three primary ones,
    levels of analysis will help understand how one force in political
    power affects another. Generally, power is the concept that collects
    all the analysis together. For example, the struggle for power may
    be the cause of war, but the struggle for power may originate in the
    individual human being's lust for power. The lust for power is
    individual level of analysis, while the struggle for power is systemic
    level of analysis
    1. Individual Level of Analysis - international politics is being driven
    primarily by actions of individuals, or outcomes of psychological forces
    a. Decisions are made by individual leaders.
    b. Generally, human nature is the main focus.
    c. Examples of theories: cognitive theories; Some commentators
    distinguish between "cognitive constructivism" which is about how the
    individual understands things, and "social constructivism", which
    emphasizes how meanings and understandings grow out of social
    encounters
    d. Types of data considered
    · Leadership style
    · Leader’s beliefs, goals and value system
    · Personal relationship
    e. Some theories recognize that human behavior cannot be examined
    effectively only as individual behavior, that is why they also look at how
    organizations influence actions.
    · Groupthink
    State Level of Analysis - being driven by the domestic regimes of states

    a. The focus is on states seen as unique. State behavior derives from its unique
    features.
    b. The state is not seen as unitary.
    · Bureaucracy
    · Legislature
    · Interest groups
    · people
    c. Generally, the specific features of individual states are the focus.
    · Type of government.
    · The state is put in the context of the situation.
    · At this level the mechanisms or the specific types of policy available to states
    given the situation are also examined.
    d. Examples of theories:
    · Regime theory - "institutions possessing norms, decision rules, and procedures
    which facilitate a convergence of expectations.“
    (Krasner)
    · bureaucratic politics - stress the motivation by the relevant
    officials in the government bureaucracy to protect or promote their own
    agency's special interests (in competition with other agencies) as a major
    motivating factor in shaping the timing and the content of government
    decisions.
    · Military-industrial complex - A coalition consisting of the military
    and industrialists who profit by manufacturing arms and selling them to
    the government.
    · Democratic peace theory – democracies do not fight other
    democracies. This does not mean that they are pacifist.
    e. Types of data considered
    · Form of government
    · Political institutions
    · Economic structure and level of development
    · Ideology
    · History
    · Culture - political culture is a people's preference for one way of
    making decisions about how a nation should be governed. It is a people's
    views on who should make policy for the group and how the policy-makers
    should go about their task.
    · Public opinion
    Retaken from https://worldpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/tag/levels-of-analysis/

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