Bringing Concepts Back In -What is the problem which “Hyperpolitics” promises to solve
What is the problem which “Hyperpolitics” promises to solve
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Before you start...
What is the problem which “Hyperpolitics” promises to solve
The role or benefit of “Hyperpolitics”
What is "Hyperpolitics"?
Scientists in our world
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Scientists in our world. Different observers, perspectives, perceptions
What do we learn from the Reading on “Scientists in our world”?
What is a "concept"
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What is a concept, and why should we do "conceptual thinking"?
Conceptualization
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What do we learn from the Reading on “What is a concept...?”
Bringing Concepts Back In -Empirical theories
The structure of an empirical theory
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Structure of empirical theories
Helpful old useful concepts
What do we learn from the Reading “The structure of empirical theories”?
Sartori's ladder of abstraction
What is the definition of a "concept"
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Defining ‘concepts’
Operational definitions
Two very different approaches towards “defining”
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Structure of empirical theories
The Hyperpolitics Methodology-Property spaces & typologies
Tools for conceptual thinking
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Tools for conceptual thinking: “property spaces” and typologies
More comprehensive versions and uses of “property spaces”
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More comprehensive versions and uses of “property spaces”
From property spaces to typologies
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From property spaces to typologies
Constructing and using typologies: some examples
Sum up
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Summary: What is a typology?
Developing a concept’s intension by using a property space
What do we learn from the Reading on “concept development”?
The Hyperpolitics Methodology-How Hyperpolitics works
A common vocabulary
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A common vocabulary
Conceptual Matrix
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At the core of “Hyperpolitics”: Matrix-Building
The central concept and the axes
The quadrants
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The quadrants
The peripheral concepts
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The peripheral concepts
Two examples
Summary of Matrix Building
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Sum up
The Concepts of Party and Legislature-Party
The concept of "Party"
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How to define "political party"
The adaptive nature of political parties
The matrix of Party: the axes
Building a Matrix
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The Hyperpolitics website
The "back-office" preparation of a matrix
The four quadrants
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The upper right quadrant
The lower left quadrant
The upper left quadrant
The lower right quadrant
The Concepts of Party and Legislature-Legislature
How to work with this Matrix
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The two axes of the matrix of Legislature
The horizontal axis
The vertical axis
The lower quadrants
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The lower left quadrant
The lower right quadrant
The sequence of concepts
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The upper right quadrant
The upper left quadrant
The Concepts of Bureaucracy, Constitution and Corporation-Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
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The concept of Bureaucracy
Why is bureaucracy necessary?
The two axes of the matrix of Bureaucracy
The most critical quadrants
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The upper right quadrant
The lower left quadrant
The upper left and the lower right quadrant
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The lower right quadrant
The upper left quadrant
Conclusions
The Concepts of Bureaucracy, Constitution and Corporation-Constitution
The Constitution
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The Matrix of Constitution
The Axes
The Axes
The lower quadrants
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The lower right quadrant
The lower left quadrants
The upper quadrants
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The upper left quadrants
The upper right quadrants
The Concepts of Bureaucracy, Constitution and Corporation-Corporation
Corporations
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The Matrix of Corporation
The Horizontal Axis
The Vertical Axis
The upper quadrants
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The upper left quadrant
The upper right quadrant
The lower quadrants
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The lower left quadrant
The lower right quadrant