書目名稱 | Trying to Measure Globalization | 副標(biāo)題 | Experiences, critica | 編輯 | Marco Caselli | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/931/930659/930659.mp4 | 概述 | This Briefs presents a basically and complete review of the existing globalization indexes.This Briefs is both interesting for scholars and academic library.Includes supplementary material: | 叢書名稱 | SpringerBriefs in Political Science | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | The aim of this book is to conduct a critical survey of the main tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization processes. To this end, the first part of the book discusses the meaning of the concept considered, highlighting the different and often contradictory interpretations put forward in its regard in the literature. Subsequently analysed are the passages and issues that must be addressed when constructing an instrument intended to measure a social phenomenon of such complexity as globalization. Stressed in particular is that the researcher’s subjectivity is repeatedly involved in these passages, so that no instrument can have objective validity. Given these premises, the book presents the principal tools employed in attempts to measure globalization, starting with those whose unit of analysis is the state. In this regard, particular space is devoted to indexes which take a multidimensional approach to the concept of globalization. There follows a comparison among the results obtained using these indexes, and criticisms are made of the ways in which the latter have been constructed. A limitation, or if one wishes a paradox, concerning such tools is that they meas | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Component of globalization indexes; Globalization processes; Measure globalization; State-based approac | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2807-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-2806-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-2807-3Series ISSN 2191-5466 Series E-ISSN 2191-5474 | issn_series | 2191-5466 | copyright | The Author(s) 2012 |
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