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Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l'ère de la mondialisation

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 [...]

Globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century.

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 [...]

Top-Emitting Countries Differ on Climate Change Threat

Chinese see least threat from global warming; Japanese see the most
by Anita Pugliese and Julie Ray

GALLUP

Between 2007 and 2008, Gallup conducted the first comprehensive survey of global opinions about climate change, asking respondents in 128 countries about their awareness of the issue and the extent to which they perceive climate change as a threat to [...]

Happiness trends in 24 countries, 1946-2006

Internet appendix to Inglehart, Foa and Welzel,

“Social Change, Freedom and Rising Happiness,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The following graphs shows the trends in happiness levels found in 24 countries, using comparable data from all available surveys for countries having at least xx datapoints from 1946 to 2007. These data are from Ruut Veenhoven’s World [...]

Excellence Ranking 2009 And the Crisis of the European University

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 [...]

Globalization, global gender relations and value change in global society

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:

Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations

Attitudes toward race not significantly improved from previous years

by Frank Newport – Gallup

PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America’s race-relations problem will eventually be worked out — a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall’s historic election of [...]

U.S. Leadership Gets Approval Boost in Parts of Europe

October 19, 2009
Approval increased by a median of 40 percentage points in 7 of 8 countries surveyed

by Cynthia English 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Approval of U.S. leadership increased significantly in seven of eight European countries between Gallup surveys conducted before and after President Barack Obama’s administration took office earlier this year. In most of these [...]

World Citizens’ Views on U.S. Leadership, Pre- and Post-Obama

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World Citizens’ Views on U.S. Leadership, Pre- and Post-Obama

The Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation Index in Web of Science is a carefully selected and evaluated collection delivers to users the most influential scientific research information from the 20th century. With the addition of Century of Social SciencesTM, SSCI delivers comprehensive [...]

Résultats des élections européennes 2009: Enquête pré-électorale

L’enquête pré-électorale présentée ici a été réalisée entre le 4 et le 12 mai 2009 dans les vingt-sept États membres de l’Union européenne. Nous avons interrogé dans chaque État membre un échantillon représentatif d’environ 1000 répondants en âge d’aller voter. Pour des raisons liées aux restrictions légales, les résultats relatifs à l’Italie et au Luxembourg, [...]

Re Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

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 [...]