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Cross-national data and the country results from the Arab Opinion Index

October 19, 2012 Arno Tausch, Measurement of Arab Public Opinion Project, Statistical data and interpretation Comments Off

A codebook for a collection of data in EXCEL andPDF format

By: Arno Tausch*

Undoubtedly, the data from the Arab Opinion Index are a major breakthrough in global research about the so-called Middle East. http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/5083cf8e-38f8-4e4a-8bc5-fc91660608b0 As Professor Mark Tessler, the doyen of scientific opinion research on the Arab world has been reminding his public all across the globe, http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.tesslermark_ci.detail empirical data on opinions in Arab nations are only now becoming available.

 The author of this compilation of the openly available COUNTRY data from the Arab Opinion Index of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, globally available at http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/5083cf8e-38f8-4e4a-8bc5-fc91660608b0 provides his readership with the following materials

An EXCEL File, containing comparative cross-national data and the country results from the Arab Opinion Index. Table 1 contains the data, Table 2 the list of variables and Table 3 the sources

 

 

 

CODEBOOK: Cross-national data and the country results from the Arab Opinion Index (PDF)

 

 

DATA IN EXCEL FORMAT: The Arab Opinion Index results in a wider macroquantitative context

Additional file for variables 235-266

 

 

 

 

 

*Arno Tausch

Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University

Honorary Associate Professor of Economics, Corvinus University Budapest

Regular Lecturer, International Development, Vienna University

Lecturer of Sociology, Université Fribourg, Suisse

academic e-mail

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Global value change, based on the World Values Survey

August 13, 2012 Arno Tausch, Statistical data and interpretation Comments Off

Arno Tausch

International sociology studied global values and global value change for a number of years now. This research tradition is intimately connected with the ‘World Values Survey’ project at the University of Michigan, headed by Professor Ronald F. Inglehart. The World Values Survey (WVS), in collaboration with the EVS (European Values Study), carried out representative national surveys in 97 societies containing almost 90 percent of the world’s population. The five waves of surveys started in 1981, the fifth survey ended in 2007. Increasingly, the economics profession makes large-scale and creative use of these data, integrating the World Values Survey results into international economic growth accounting. Well-known research publications in this tradition are presented, among others, by Barro, 2004; Barro and Hwang, 2007; and Barro and McCleary, 2003. Read more

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Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment‘? – A new international data set

August 9, 2012 Arno Tausch, Statistical data and interpretation Comments Off

Arno Tausch

The cross-national empirics of the international asylum system are in their infancy. While Hatton, 2009, and Neumayer, 2005, 2006a and 2006b provided important and valuable cross-national insights on the drivers of the asylum seeking process, as yet little is known in terms of hard-core evidence about the effects of asylum-driven migration processes on the recipient countries. But such analyses are necessary, since asylum plays such an important role in the overall South-North migration process, and several international decision makers, especially on the European level, are increasingly stressing the necessity to get asylum seekers into employment, while others – like the Austrian Ministry of the Interior in its long-term strategy, published in 2012 – vehemently argue in favour of a clear separation between legal, employment-related migration and asylum. Will ‘getting asylum seekers into employment’ have any effects on social and economic development, or will this motivate more and more people to emigrate for work as “free riders” of the asylum system? Read more

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Dataset for ‘Globalization, the human condition and sustainable development in the 21st Century.

July 14, 2010 Arno Tausch, Statistical data and interpretation Comments Off

Social Sciences and Humanities- MESOJ- ISSN 2109-9618- (2010) Volume 1 No 2

‘Cross-national perspectives and European implications’

Dataset, documentation and codebook.

By Arno Tausch, Innsbruck University

French-language sociology in particular, and European sociology in general, as yet did not fully appreciate the full potential of macro-quantitative development research. In this data set for 175 countries, Arno Tausch develops a data framework for the analysis of seven dimensions of development, democracy, growth, environment, gender equality, human development, research and development and social cohesion, and empowers students and researchers around the globe to explain the absolute values of these indicators (EXCEL File Final ata set) and the standardized, UNDP type performance indicators (Excel file UNDP type Index) in a macro-quantitative framework, inviolving the most important universally recognized drivers and bottlenecks of development today, including globalization and migration.

The data sets are for 175 countries each and the sources are fully documented in the codebook. Read more

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Is Inequality Among Universities Increasing? Gini Coefficients and the Elusive Rise of Elite Universities

April 5, 2010 Statistical data and interpretation One comment

Willem Halffman1 and Loet Leydesdorff2

(1) Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen—Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(2) Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Willem Halffman (Corresponding author)
Email: [email protected]
URL: www.halffman.net

Loet Leydesdorff
Email: [email protected]

Published online: 20 March 2010 – Minerva- A Review of Science, Learning and Policy

Abstract

One of the unintended consequences of the New Public Management (NPM) in universities is often feared to be a division between elite institutions focused on research and large institutions with teaching missions. However, institutional isomorphisms provide counter-incentives. For example, university rankings focus on certain output parameters such as publications, but not on others (e.g., patents). In this study, we apply Gini coefficients to university rankings in order to assess whether universities are becoming more unequal, at the level of both the world and individual nations. Our results do not support the thesis that universities are becoming more unequal. If anything, we predominantly find homogenisation, both at the level of the global comparisons and nationally. In a more restricted dataset (using only publications in the natural and life sciences), we find increasing inequality for those countries, which used NPM during the 1990s, but not during the 2000s. Our findings suggest that increased output steering from the policy side leads to a global conformation to performance standards.

Keywords  Elite universities - Gini coefficients - Inequality - University ranking - New public management - Output performance Read more

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USA: Military and National Defense

March 27, 2010 Statistical data and interpretation Comments Off

Gallup Survey

There is much discussion as to the amount of money the government in Washington should spend for national defense and military purposes. How do you feel about this? Do you think we are spending too little, about the right amount, or too much? Read more

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Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation

January 31, 2010 Almas Heshmati, Arno Tausch, Hichem Karoui, Statistical data and interpretation 31 comments

Par :

Arno TAUSCH1

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: [email protected]

Hichem KAROUI

Docteur en sociologie, Sorbonne, Paris

Email : [email protected]

1 Les opinions exprimées par Dr. Tausch dans cet article le sont exclusivement en sa qualité de professeur adjoint à l’université autrichienne, et ne reflètent pas nécessairement les opinions du gouvernement autrichien.



Bien que la sociologie française a longuement débattu la question de la mondialisation, il est surprenant de constater que jusqu’à ce jour, et à toutes fins utiles, elle a négligé la tentative internationale la plus cohérente pour mesurer quantitativement et étudier les effets de la pénétration du capital transnational sur le développement économique et social des pays d’accueil, proposée par le sociologue suisse Volker Bornschier, dès les années 1980. Notre article analyse les estimations du FMI concernant la croissance économique actuelle dans 180 pays (FMI, 2009), plus neuf autres indicateurs clefs du développement social mondial actuel. Il montre la pertinence de cette approche de Bornschier par la pénétration des sociétés multinationales –MNC-,1 (1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 2002), Bornschier / Ballmer-Cao (1979), Bornschier / Chase-Dunn (1985); Bornschier / Chase-Dunn / Rubinson (1978). Pour de l’espace, les lecteurs peuvent consulter la documentation technique de cet article ci-dessous:

Mots-clés: Relations internationales et économie politique internationale – Développement économique général – Changement technologique et croissance – Développement économique –

1 MNC : Multinational Corporation.

Téléchargez la documentation pour cet article (PDF):Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation



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