The programme theory, the central element of theory-driven evaluation, was constructed on the basis of semi-structured interviews with designers, implementers and beneficiaries and an analysis of the intervention's logical framework.
As Christopher Turner notices in his very amusing and intelligent book, "Adventures in the Orgasmatron," George Orwell, not usually associated with promiscuity of any kind, included central elements of the Reichian theory and program almost uncritically in the pages of "1984".
The understanding of this doctrine and its implications in more depth depends, probably more than any other doctrine, on how one construes other central elements of Spinoza's theory of attributes (e.g. the number of attributes).
Dissatisfaction with each of the central elements of Brentano's theory of judgement has been a motive in this tradition to explore alternative routes in analyzing the relation between presentations and judgements, the polarity of positive and negative judgements, and the special role of existential judgements (see Husserl 2009, Reinach 1911, Heidegger 1913; Schuhmann 1998).
The phrase "the survival of the fittest" is not his but was coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer to summarise the notion of natural selection, the central element of evolutionary theory.
Incentives to innovate are a central element of innovation theory.
Central elements of the BME method are described below.
Central elements of the methodology are summarized below.
As a central element of rational choice theory, which attempts to explain political behaviour as the rational pursuit of individual self-interest, the impossibility theorem posed a major challenge to 20th-century welfare economics and to a reevaluation of how democratic decision procedures arrive at representative expressions of individuals' preferences.
