Economic aspects of a European union
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 1, S. 431-441
ISSN: 0043-8871
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 1, S. 431-441
ISSN: 0043-8871
In: Focus, Band 8, S. 1-6
ISSN: 0015-5004
In: Political Studies, Heft 2, S. 7-32
ISSN: 2786-4782
Indices of democratic development are the important issue of contemporary political studies. Their calculation allows to rank countries by a set of parameters and, accordingly, to assess trends in political changes. In this context, some authors pay attention to the indicators of development of national economies. In general, when it comes to determining the type of political regime, it is necessary to consider the various dimensions (e. g. institutional, socio-cultural). To avoid conclusions based on incomplete information and focus on separate – institutional, cultural, or economic – aspects, it is necessary to use an interdisciplinary approach, which, in addition, allows to consider the maximum number of factors of sustainability of democratic trends. Considering the scholarly debate over the interdependence of political and economic development, the paper compares the indices of democracy with economic development estimates, as well as the Gross domestic product of the countries selected for consideration. Quantitative data were analyzed with the calculation of the corresponding correlation coefficients. Initially, the author identified the relationship between indicators of democratic development to obtain confirmation of the feasibility of further comparison. As the obtained coefficients for the selected group of countries are reliable, the methodology applied to the considered countries is valid for application for other regions for which the listed research institutions carry out evaluations. This allowed the use of democratic development indicators to compare them with assessments of market economy development. Accordingly, there is a correlation between democratic and economic development – indicators of democracy status, democracy index and ranking of countries on the democracy scale on the one hand, and the index of economic freedom, market economy status, indicators of institutional ranking of economic freedoms – one the other. Moreover, it is emphasized that theoretical generalizations about the relationship between democracy / democratization and the level of economic development should take into account not only the correlation between expert assessments, but also the relationship between democratization and GDP. On the other hand – such a relationship is nonlinear, and the conditions of democracy, external and internal factors, as well as the national context are significant. Key words: democracy, political regime, economic development, modernization theory, Gross domestic product.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 431-441
ISSN: 1086-3338
The idea of a European political and economic union is more popular and is being taken more seriously in the United States than in Europe. The American attitude has been well expressed in the "Declaration of Policy" of "The Foreign Assistance Act of 1948" by which Congress enacted the European Recovery Program. One section of that act reads:
In: Przegla̜d zachodni / Polnische Ausgabe, Heft Spec. No, S. [151]-164
World Affairs Online
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 99-112
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 64-77
ISSN: 1467-9485
This paper deals the overview of characteristics and prices of Biomass. The agriculture in Hungary has big potential in energy production from biomass. Economic aspects of the utilizing the Biomass for energy production is very important. The price of biomass production mainly depends on internal agricultural preferences, on biomass transformation prices and the government biomass utilization support.
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 195
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Issue: a journal of opinion, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 7-14
The concept of "brain drain" is in its origins a nationalistic concept, by which is meant a concept that visualizes economic and cultural welfare in terms of the welfare of the residents of a national state or region, viewed as a totality, and excludes from consideration both the welfare of people born in that region who choose to leave it, and the welfare of the outside world in general. Moreover, though the available statistics are far from adequate on this point, there is generally assumed to be a net flow of trained professional people from the former colonial territories to the ex-imperial European nations, and from Europe and elsewhere to North America and particularly the United States. The concept thus lends itself easily to the expression of anti-colonial sentiments on the one hand, and anti-American sentiments on the other. The expression of such sentiments can be dignified by the presentation of brain drain as a serious economic and cultural problem, by relying on nationalistic sentiments and assumptions and ignoring the principles of economics—especially the principle that in every transaction there is both a demand and a supply—or by elevating certain theoretical economic possibilities into presumed hard facts.
In: Studies in the regulation of economic activity