Socio-Political Model

  • Represents fiscal policy through taxing and spending decisions
  • Shows six categories of government spending: military, health, education, R&D, foreign aid, and a residual category
  • Represents changes in social conditions of individuals (like fertility rates or literacy levels), attitudes of individuals (such as the level of materialism/post-materialism of a society from the World Values Survey), and the social organization of people (such as the status of women)
  • Represents the evolution of democracy
  • Represents the prospects for state instability or failure