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Cross-Impact Matrix
"Somewhereland"
A. Government:
A1 "Patriots party" -2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -2 1 1 0 0 0
A2 "Prosperity party" 2 1 -3 -2 -1 3 -2 2 0 0 0 2 -1 -1
A3 "Social party" 0 0 0 0 2 -2 3 -3 2 -1 -1 -2 2 0
B. Foreign policy:
B1 Cooperation 0 0 0 -2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B2 Rivalry 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 1 0 -1 0 0 0
B3 Conflict 3 -1 -2 3 0 -3 0 0 3 -1 -2 -2 1 1
C. Economy:
C1 Shrinking 2 1 -3 0 0 0 -2 2 -3 1 2 0 0 0
C2 Stagnant -1 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
C3 Dynamic 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 2 3 -1 -2 0 0 0
D. Distribution of wealth:
D1 Balanced 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 -1 -2 -2 1 1
D2 Strong contrasts 0 -3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 1 2 2 -1 -1
E. Social cohesion:
E1 Social peace 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -1 3 0 0 2 -1 -1
E2 Tensions 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 1 -2 0 0 -1 0 1
E3 Riots 2 -1 -1 -3 1 2 3 0 -3 0 0 -2 -1 3
F. Social values:
F1 Meritocratic 0 3 -3 0 0 0 -3 0 3 -3 3 -2 1 1
F2 Solidarity 1 -2 1 0 0 0 -1 2 -1 2 -2 2 -1 -1
F3 Family 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 2 -1 1 -1 2 -1 -1
Scenario assumptions:
Balances 0 3 -3 2 1 -3 -9 -1 10 -7 7 4 -1 -3 2 -1 -1
Maximum:
The impact score of a variant
The impact balance of a descriptor
Exercise: Fig. 2-2 The cross-impact judgements in are to be taken as an example. They express a pos-
sible view on the issue of societal development, but your opinion on some relationships might be
different for a real country. Prepare your own matrix which expresses your personal judgements.
2.3.2 Recognizing the inconsistencies of a scenario
The interdependencies shown in Fig. 2-2 constitute a net of impact relations expressed by the cross-
impact matrix. They limit the space of plausible scenarios for the system state because a configura-
tion chosen arbitrarily will in general contain contradictions to the "rules" of the system. Contradic-
tions are made visible by calculating the impact balances of a scenario. In Fig. 2-3 this is done for the
scenario S = [ A2 B1 C3 D1 E1 F1 ] (Government: "Prosperity party", foreign policy: cooperation,
economy: dynamic, distribution of wealth: balanced, social cohesion: social peace, social values:
meritocratic). Summing up the highlighted rows summarizes the influences impacting the descrip-
tors. The scores of the impact balances which correspond to the given scenario are marked by arrows
in the row "Scenario assumptions".
Fig. 2-3: The impact balance of a scenario.
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