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Multilevel systems and policy

In: Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science

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  • Professor Jeffrey Johnson
  • Professor Joyce Fortune
  • Dr Jane Bromley

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Making multilevel systems well-defined is essential for the implementation of computer models to investigate the multilevel consequences of policy. This chapter shows that systems thinking can provide practical guidance to those building models of complex multilevel social systems in order to inform policymaking. Part–whole aggregation and taxonomic aggregation are described as methods of representing multilevel structure, and it is shown how they are interleaved in the construction of vocabulary to describe multilevel systems. This enables complex nested structures to be represented as a kind of backcloth that supports patterns of aggregate and disaggregate numbers that describe the day-to-day traffic of people, resources and responsibility that are essential for systems to function.

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  • Professor Jeffrey Johnson & Professor Joyce Fortune & Dr Jane Bromley, 2018. "Multilevel systems and policy," Chapters, in: Eve Mitleton-Kelly & Alexandros Paraskevas & Christopher Day (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science, chapter 18, pages 363-387, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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