ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the analytic framework for statistical politics, and the apparatus of thought, that economic theory already provides for statistical economics. The structural analysis of any society into individuals and groups of individuals may be made quite arbitrarily, for convenience of observing, comparing, and generalizing about the Society's varieties of functional and transactional activities. Political science is interested in the acts or behaviour of men toward men, their mutual interrelations and reciprocal contacts; the orders, punishments, votes, verdicts, appointments, dismissals, passing transitively from men to men, and the meetings and discussions between men, that form part of their relations of ruling, manning, and sharing of work. Customs occur and recur that imply division or diffusion of labour among the rulers, and the analysis already made of such work-sharing relations must be used as an essential framework to statistical measurement and generalization.
