Description: Original essays address missing elements in four key areas of political analysis. They are: Missing Elements in Formal Models: Particularly in such fields as international relations where formal modelling has allowed exploration of areas not open to verbal description. Yet even formal modelling cannot deal with the staggering number of variables in political life. How to deal with the assumptions embedded in any model? And what about all the human imponderables that any logical or statistically based analysis fails to quantify or even detect? Two concepts, coherence and precision, are examined as guides to filling in these gaps. Missing Elements in Dynamic Models: Dynamic models move us into the examination of political change. Too often, however, they are simplistic, or merely additive. Ways of taking into account the structure and interactions of change are pin-pointed in actual studies. Missing Elements in Linkage Models: What is the relation of the individual voter to the electorate in general? Linkage models attempt to explain such relationships -- but often between two different levels of analysis -- or they treat two d

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