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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

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index

A.T. Kearney

The Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index is a regular survey of global executives conducted by A.T. Kearney. The Index provides a unique look at the present and future prospects for international investment flows. Companies participating in the survey account for more than $3.8 trillion in annual global revenue.

The Shadow Economy in Europe

Using payment systems to combat the shadow economy

At almost $3 trillion, the shadow economy — that blurry area of commerce that includes legal activity hidden deliberately from public authorities — makes up a sizeable portion of economic activity in Europe. This study, performed for VISA Europe, examines the structure of the [...]

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 [...]

Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

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 [...]

Bourdieu, the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies: a critique

Mary S. Mander

«Les tables séparées». Écoles et sectes dans la science politique américaine

Gabriel A. Almond

Miss Cooper : La solitude est une chose terrible vous ne trouvez pas ?

Anne : Oui vraiment. Une chose terrible…

Miss Meecham : Elle n’est pas du genre «solitaire».

Miss Cooper : Y a-t-il quelqu’un qui soit du genre «solitaire»… ?

Terence Rattigan, Separate Tables, 1955

DANS Separate Tables, le succès de la saison théâtrale new-yorkaise de [...]

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, [...]

What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think: An Answer to a Recent Gallup Study, Based on the “World Values Survey”

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 [...]

Titanic 2010? The European Union and its Failed Lisbon Strategy

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, [...]

A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

by Donghyun Oh, Almas Heshmati
(May 2009)

Abstract:
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to consider this condition and to develop an alternative index, a directional [...]

Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq

Dr. Phil Williams.

Dr. Williams looks in detail at major criminal activities, including the theft, diversion, and smuggling of oil, the kidnapping of both Iraqis and foreigners, extortion, car theft, and the theft and smuggling of antiquities. He also considers the critical role played by corruption in facilitating and strengthening organized crime and shows how [...]