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A public access codebook for the international development research community
Arno TAUSCH
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Austria
E-mail: Arno.Tausch@uibk.ac.at
Box 1: The independent variables
% women in government, all levels is one of the UNDP’s long-term lead indicators of the institutionalization of political feminism. We time-lagged the variable and measured the it by around 1998. It was documented in the NDP HDR 2000. The idea of the indicator is to capture the real advance of women not only at the level of the top political administration of a given country, but at the general level of the central government, i.e. taking the important decision-making ministerial bureaucracies into account as well.
Continue reading 41 Indicators of Development
A technical note on EMU and the rise of world-wide narco capitalism
Reprint of a book chapter from the work: Globalization and European Integration
by Arno Tausch,
Associate Visiting Professor,
Innsbruck University, Austria. University of California, Riverside
The above mentioned positive redistribution effect on a European scale between the North and the South (and later on, between the West and the East) could be endangered by the long-term effects of EMU. The proponents of EMU maintained all along, that it will be engine of political and economic unification on the continent. We fear, that the long-term effect of the project will be an increasing nationalism and a cultural conflict along the old cultural frontier, the Limes, between the Latin and the Germanic Europe, between the wine and the beer culture, between the olive oil consumers and the sausage eaters. This is the main hypothesis of the following Chapter. And this is not a Chapter against the EMU, it is a Chapter against Euro-monetarism. An increasing number of scholars propose an alternative course of action, that stresses the political and social cohesion in Europe as the main pillars of a true European Monetary Union (Rothschild, 1997). There is the danger, that Euro-monetarism will accelerate the tendency of the world system on its path towards financial speculation, narco-capitalism, and the shifting of resources away from the Atlantic region towards the Pacific. On the other hand, it is evident that Europe’s long-term ascent from the Long 16th Century onwards from the state of a former periphery of the world system to a center (Arrighi, 1995; Amin, 1975), which was based on agrarian reform and mass demand, is now threatening to be reversed by the application of monetary orthodoxy. Continue reading The Rotten Heart of Europe?
La pertinence continue du modèle de la dépendance quantitative Modèle de (Bornschier)
Par :
Arno TAUSCH[1] Professeur adjoint de sciences politiques à l’université d’Innsbruck, Autriche
E-mail: Arno.Tausch @ uibk.ac.at
Almas HESHMATI, Professeur d’économie, College of Engineering, TEMEP, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-742 Seoul, South Korea,Email: heshmati@snu.ac.kr
Hichem KAROUI, Docteur en sociologie, Sorbonne, Paris
Email : info@hichemkaroui.com
Soumis à Revue Tiers Monde (Paris)
3. La dépendance sur les MNC comme clé d’analyse des transformations contemporaines
Une analyse scientométrique de la vaste littérature de recherche empirique concernée par la dépendance dans les grandes revues internationales de sciences sociales, révèle que jusqu’au 4 Juillet 2009, 328 grandes études internationales ont cité l’analyse empirique très avancée de Galtung sur la dépendance (1971), qui lie la dépendance mesurée par partenaire commercial de la concentration et la concentration des produits d’exportation à l’inégalité de répartition des revenus. Soixante-quatorze autres grandes études internationales ont été fondées sur l’essai Sunkel (1973), qui est plus directement lié à la notion de pénétration des MNC que l’Essai Galtung (1971). Galtung (1971) et Sunkel (1973), à leur tour doivent être considérés comme les auteurs des essais catalyseurs pour les deux études pionnières sur la dépendance quantitative, écrits par Chase Dunn (1975) [qui fut à son tour suivi par 213 études], et Rubinson (1976) [qui à ce jour, a donné suite à 170 études dans les grandes revues de sciences sociales du monde]. Bornschier / Chase-Dunn / Rubinson, bâtissant sur Chase-Dunn (1975), et Rubinson (1978), donnèrent plus tard l’étude la plus importante dans le domaine, en systématisant la recherche basée sur le concept de la pénétration des MNC. Cet essai initialise 185 études suivantes, tandis que Bornschier / Ballmer-Cao, se consacrent à la question de l’inégalité économique comme une conséquence de la pénétration des MNC, donnèrent suite à 74 autres études.[2] Continue reading Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation
A companion to a multivariate analysis
Arno Tausch
Copenhagen and after. A 175 nation data set from international sources
The debate about globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century is really never-ending. In the following freely available data documentation, provided by the Austrian political scientist Dr. Arno Tausch, recent cross-national data from international sources for 175 countries were especially arranged for global students and researchers of globalization, with a special emphasis on the environment effects of globalization in the wake of the recent Copenhaguen conference.
With the present data set, sociologists, political scientists and economists will be able to exactly statistically estimate the effects of the following variables on global development: Continue reading Globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century.
Tausch Higher education and societal development EXCEL data file (3 Tables)
The Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch foresaw already in 1991 in an article for the widely circulated social democratic monthly “Die Zukunft”, published in Vienna, the crisis of the European Universities. Tausch proposed then the idea of a full University democracy with free elections of University Presidents, Deans etc. with a net household income per capita weighted tuition system. Continue reading Excellence Ranking 2009 And the Crisis of the European University
A cross-national data collection
Arno TAUSCH*
This data set combines the most up-to-date data on globalization and gender relations (combining these with data from the World Values Survey). The dataset in EXCEL format is freely available and draws on the following sources: Continue reading Globalization, global gender relations and value change in global society
Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of recent sociological religious value research with economic growth. The present essay starts from this methodological position, and links value systems with economic performance in a much wider and macrosociological framework. We further develop the well-known Inglehart and Welzel (2003) map of global values, and develop the idea of “Asabiyya” (“social cohesion”), as a counter-model to both Barro and Inglehart and Welzel approaches. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long run? Starting from principal component analysis, it is shown that rather two factors are decisive in understanding global value change: a continuum of “traditional versus secular”, and a continuum “cheating versus active society”. Asabiyya in the 21st Century, as a way out from the modernization trap of societies, characterized by large-scale social anomaly, is a high secularism combined with a high active society score, thus avoiding the “modernization trap”. Continue reading Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
New book, by: Arno Tausch (Innsbruck Univ. Innsbruck, Austria) Book Description: This book is based on the quantitative, multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data from more than 80 countries around the globe on the political and social values of the world’s Muslim communities by international comparison. Global Muslims and also the Muslim communities in Western [...] [...]
New Book, by : Arno Tausch (Innsbruck University)
Book Description:
Titanic 2010 is around the corner: Is Eastern Europe really catching up with the West, and is the enlarged and transformed Europe really on its way to become, by 2010, the most competitive region in the world economy?
Starting from the seven “cardinal sins” of the transformation process, described by Harvard Professor Janos Kornai. it is evident that the real income of a significant proportion of the population has remained unchanged,or even deteriorated in Eastern Europe, that a dramatic ‘restructuring’ has taken place in the area of income distribution, that the employment rate has significantly declined, public security deteriorating, corruption has not ended, and that there are disorders in the political arena with tax policies favoring the rich. Continue reading Titanic 2010? The European Union and its Failed Lisbon Strategy
Arno Tausch[1] et Philippe Jourdon[2], avec Christian Bischof[3], et Karl Mueller[4]
Nous partageons l’analyse effectuée par le diplomate américain Timothy M. Savage, selon lequel les décideurs européens ont complètement omis d’aborder la détresse sociale de larges couches de la population européenne (constituant plus de 5% de cette population aujourd’hui, et dans un avenir prévisible, en 2050, plus près de 20%) : les musulmans en Europe occidentale. Cependant, le message fondamental de cette présente publication: est que la prospective politique adhérant aux objectifs liés au processus de Lisbonne, avec son exigence d’une politique axée sur la cohésion sociale, sera en capacité d’aborder les questions fondamentales liées à l’intégration sociale.
Dans cet article, nous utilisons l’instrument puissant que constitue l’Etude Sociale Européenne (ESS), afin d’étudier la situation de ces communautés musulmanes en Europe. La première, et triste réalité que nous avons le devoir d’affirmer, dans ce contexte, sur la base de notre étude de le ESS, est que des politiques discriminatoires observées ces dernières années, semblent avoir augmenté la pauvreté parmi les communautés musulmanes en Allemagne, en Autriche, en Belgique, au Danemark, ainsi qu’en Grèce, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, en Suède et en Suisse, tandis que la Norvège, la Slovénie, l’Espagne et le Royaume-Uni ont réduit la pauvreté chez leurs musulmans, entre 2002 et 2004. Les deux États multinationaux en Europe par excellence, la Suisse et la Belgique, montrent les meilleurs résultats pour l’indicateur de développement des populations musulmanes, alors que la Belgique et la Suède ont les meilleurs résultats pour l’indicateur de la capacité des musulmans à s’émanciper. L’Autriche, la France, l’Allemagne, ainsi que la Slovénie, se classent très bas sur chacun de nos deux principaux indicateurs. Continue reading EXCLUSION SOCIALE, PROCESSUS DE LISBONNE ET MUSULMANS D’EUROPE
Arno TAUSCH and Almas HESHMATI
TEMEP Discussion Paper No 2009:11
ABSTRACT
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and links the results to the “Re-orient” approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign capital) penetration as the key variable of past
quantitative dependency studies for contemporary economic growth and social performance. In a Schumpeterian fashion, MNC penetration reflects the power, which transnational oligopolies wield over local economies. Today, social polarization and stagnation increase as a consequence of the development model, based on high MNC penetration. Continue reading Re Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Arno Tausch
User Instruction:
Normal users will only need the statistical data, contained in Table 1 of the EXCEL file.
Quantitative sociologists, econometricians, and quantitative political scientists are kindly invited also to look into the other Tables. Continue reading Asabiyya Data Set – Global Values and World Development
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