Arno Tausch
Arno Tausch ( born February 11, 1951 in Salzburg, Austria ) is an Austrian political scientist and one of the founders of the quantitative world system and development research in Europe. His research program is focused on the world systems theory, dependency theory, and criticism of globalization.
Life
Exchange earned his doctorate in political science at the University of Salzburg in 1976 and received his habilitation from the University of Innsbruck. His habilitation Commission was headed by Anton Pelinka, external experts were among others Ulrich Albrecht and Winfried Rohrich. External opinions were, inter alia, submitted by Karl Wolfgang German from Harvard University.
After studying at the University of Salzburg in the fall of 1977, he received a position as assistant professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck. He was from 1992 to 1999 Austrian diplomat abroad and held the rank of labor and migration attachés later, he was Counsellor for Labour and migration. He also was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa and a visiting scientist at the International Institute for Comparative Social Research, Science Center, West Berlin (today: WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin).
He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, as well as guest professor of economics at the Corvinus University in Budapest and regular lecturer at the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna.
Arno exchange is married since 1978 and has three grown daughters.
Scientific Work
Exchange deals in his investigations with empirical analyzes of globalization, dependency theory and world systems theory, social development in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe and in the Muslim world. His research began with a rethinking of dependency theory by quantitative data and statistical analysis and work on poverty in the leading industrial countries. The empirical analysis of the dependence, income inequality and social development in many countries of the world was the subject of his dissertation, " The Limits of Growth Theory" at the University of Salzburg.
His habilitation thesis at the University of Innsbruck is based on multiple regression models of global development with the help of data from the World Bank and Volker Born Schiers of the University of Zurich, as well as the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III by Charles Lewis Taylor and David Jodice. He tested the relevance of the socio - liberal approaches to the development of the world that were already inherent in the writings of classical social democratic theories of development in Europe in the 1930s. This approach is completed exchange later in Towards a Socio- Liberal Theory of World Development ( 1993). In 1998 this book was (published by Macmillan and St Martin 's Press, 1992) by the U.S. Association of University and Research Libraries ( ACRL ) as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books" in the period from 1993 to 1998 excellent.
Publications (selection )
As of February 2014, he published 16 books in English, two in French and eight in German, as well as over 220 articles in print and electronic media, as well as some articles in daily newspapers.
- Poverty and radicalism? Sociological perspectives on the integration of Muslims in Europe. European Higher Education Publishing, 2013. ISBN 3-94148276-9
- Dar Al Islam, The Mediterranean, the World System and the Wider Europe. Nova Science Publishers. , 2005.
- Beyond the world social theories. 2nd Edit. Ed in 1991. ISBN 3-92677726-5
- What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think. Nova Science Publishers, 2009.
- Russia treadmill. Capitalist world system, long cycles and the new instability in the east. Kindle Reading App. ISBN 3-92677729 -X
- Productive force of social justice? . Europe and the lessons of the " Pacific Model." Kindle Reading App. ISBN 3-92677730-3
He is on the editorial board of several international scientific papers.