INTEGRATION AS A COMBINATION OF OUTCOME AND PROCESS
A combination of both integration as an outcome and integration as a process defines integration as any level of association ascertained by specified measures or as any level of association between actors, on one dimension or another. This way of defining integration allows the researcher to speak of various types of integration (economic, social, political et cetera), and of various levels of integration. This enables researcher to do comparative research.
It is obvious that the static and dynamic approach are complementary, for at any given point in time, the units will be situated at any point along the spectrum of integration.
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