UN LIVRE UTILE 46

29/11/04

“…analytical models or frameworks. When properly constructed, such frameworks serve to structure speculation concerning “cause and effects” relationship. In so doing, frameworks facilitate the identification of specific research hypothesis.
A number of issues must be confronted in the course of constructing analytical frameworks. Initialy framework architects should be concerned with the comprehensive and coherent portrayed of their independent and dependant variables. Second, the ideal framework art to cluster destructively those variables which are analytically and conceptually interrelated. The analyst can subsequently extract, organize and test the hypothesis which pertain to similar or carpeting variables. Third, it may be necessary to specify interning variables. Forth, those should be conscious coordination between the chosen method of inquiry and the specification of the units of analysis. Without such consideration, it would be difficult to extract hypothesis and certainly impossible to test them.”
P.20 of Foreign Policy Behavior
Wilkenfeld, Jonathan
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