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 [...]
by David Goldfield
American Studies Journal Number 53 (Summer 2009)
Evangelical religion and evangelical democracy reinforced each other in nineteenth-century America. The spread of evangelical Christianity and democracy across a continent justified the wars against Native Americans and Mexico, and provided the moral framework for the fight against slavery which many Americans came to see as incompatible [...]
Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better
Jan 28th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Illustration by Ian Whadcock
THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates [...]
Cato Policy Report, January/February 2010
by Jeffrey Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman is the editor of Critical Review and of Causes of the Financial Crisis, forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
You are familiar by now with the role of the Federal Reserve in stimulating the housing boom; the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in encouraging lowequity [...]
Pierre Bourdieu
J’ai assisté dans les années 1960 en Algérie à ce qui m’apparaît rétrospectivement comme une véritable expérimentation sociale Ce pays dans lequel certaines populations montagnardes reculées et isolées comme celles que ai pu étudier en Kabylie avaient pu conserver conserver à peu près intactes les traditions une économie précapitaliste tout à fait [...]
Researchers find social aspects of learning important at all ages
According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the “Science of Learning,” which re-evaluates how children learn in formal and informal settings.
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 [...]
MAX WEBER
On The Methodology of the Social Sciences
Translated and Edited by EDWARD A. SHILS and HENRY A. FINCH
With a Foreword by EDWARD A. SHILS
The essays in this book were written, as all methodological essays should be written, in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on the [...]
Its Role in Conflict and Peace
Author: David Smock
Series: USIP Special Reports
This paper addresses the potentially positive role of religion in peacemaking and conflict resolution, commenting on the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) field work experiences. It examines the link between religion and conflict, reviews the experiences with religious activism, mediation and facilitation and discusses [...]
The U.S. economy of the 21st century little resembles that of the 18th century, but acceptance of change and embrace of competition remain unchanged.
“The panic itself was felt in every part of the globe,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “It was as if a volcano had burst forth in New York, causing a tidal wave [...]
The PEW Forum December 2009
Executive Summary
For more than half a century, the United Nations and numerous international organizations have affirmed the principle of religious freedom.1 For just as many decades, journalists and human rights groups have reported on persecution of minority faiths, outbreaks of sectarian violence and other pressures on religious individuals and communities in [...]
Police et minorités visibles : les contrôles d’identité à Paris
A Report by the Open Society Institute
French residents of immigrant origin, particularly those of North African and sub-Saharan African background, have long complained that police single them out for unfair, discriminatory, and unnecessary identity checks. If these perceptions are true, it means that French police are [...]