Denkform: Regelkreis

It is clear from what has been said that this mode of analysis enables and indeed compels us to analyze a political system in dynamic terms. Not only do we see that it gets something done through its outputs but we are also sensitized to the fact that what it does may influence each successive stage of behavior. We appreciate the urgent need to interpret political processes as a continuous and interlinked flow of behavior. If we apply this conceptualization in the construction of a rudimentary model of the relationship between a political system and its environment, we would have

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5/13. The second property is shown when an organism reacts to a variable with which it is not directly in contact. Suppose, for instance, that the diagram of immediate effects (S. 4/12) is that of Figure 5/13/1; the variables have been divided by the dotted line into ‚animal‘ on the right and ‚environment‘ on the left, and the animal is not in direct contact with the variable marked X. The system is assumed to be stable, i.e. to have arrived at the ‚adapted‘ condition (S. 5 /7). If disturbed, its changes will show co-ordination of part with part (S. 5

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A vantage point has now been attained from which it is possible to discuss a general theory about the control of enterprises. In this section, it will be necessary to draw deeply on the material of Part III — of which this story is the climax. Inevitably, an account of how enterprises are to be controlled is an extraordinarily complex business. This is the reason why Figure 48, which reduces the matter to its absolute essentials, is none the less complicated and difficult to study. However, if all that has gone before has been well comprehended, the task is not

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