https://blog.eigenform.ai/tags/political-theory/ Recent content in Political Theory on Eigenform Articles Hugo en-US Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0800 https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0800 https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/ <p><figure class="article-image"> <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_25c2c88ad29c9497.webp 480w, https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_62e30cf4331bbc7e.webp 800w, https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_8785c8d02665a7ab.webp 1200w"> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_7b62a8a30ce474ff.jpg 480w, https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_d80f60b176d0f315.jpg 800w, https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_78e39f868cf7a629.jpg 1200w"> <img src="https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1_hu_d80f60b176d0f315.jpg" alt="Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1" width="1000" height="562" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="zoomable" data-full-url="https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/Procedural-Models-of-Political-Order-img1.jpg"> </picture></figure></p> <p>The point of a model is not to replicate real-world phenomena; it is to identify which inputs are most important in producing a given output. The simplest functional model tells us what are the necessary and sufficient inputs to achieve the output we are interested in. This, in turn, tells us where we should focus our attention in real life — which input changes will have greatest effect on the output and which are peripheral.</p>