A verbal model is a model that allows for linguistic rather than numerical variables, and for causal relationships between the variables to be formulated verbally rather than mathematically (Wenst0p, 1976). Examples for such include Kickert's model (1979) in which Mulder's theory of power is reformalized verbally, Wenst0p's (1976) deductive verbal models of organizations, and Yager's (1979; 198...
