Volker Bornschier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104556 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Volker Bornschier |
| NOMBRES | Volker |
| APELLIDO | Bornschier |
| FIRMA | BORNSCHIER V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zurich |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
State-Building in Europe
The Rise of Spanish Multinationals
Culture and Politics in Economic Development
In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on social capital, trust and democracy and will be of interest to those in the fields of economics, s…
The Double Dividend of Expanding Education for Development
Education has been used in models of both econometricians and sociologists to explain differences in the speed of economic development. This important field of research is, however, theoretically underspecified, and the empirical tests have remained incomplete for they only model the direct effects of education suggested by the human capital school. This article complements this individualistic view by also considering functions of education stre…
Political and economic logic of western european integration
One of the few cross-national studies, which contrast members of the EU with a comparable set of other countries as benchmark, suggested that membership is beneficial for economic growth and may cause faster economic convergence of less wealthy EU member states. Employing a newly collected data set on inter-state transfers in the EU, we test whether this faster economic convergence is due to access to the Internal Market (proposition of the econ…
Transnational Corporations in World Development Still the Same Harmful Effects in an Increasingly Globalized World Economy
Transnational corporations (TNCs) have reached historically unprecedented weight and power in the world s political economy. Thus, the old question of how these corporations a?ect global development is nowadays more signi?cant than ever. While some scholars claim that corporate globalization will eventually close the worldwide development gap, many others contend that TNC activities lead to insu?cient exploitation of growth potentials within the …
Changing Income Inequality in the Second Half of the 20th Century Preliminary Findings and Propositions for Explanations
There exists a rather widespread professional consensus that income inequality both within and between societies in the world system has increased over the last quarter of a century. This, however, does not represent a secular trend since inequality between WWII and the 1970s was rather stable or decreasing. For the increasing inequality both within and between societies since the 1970s we present fresh evidence which helps to settle open questio…
Generalisiertes Vertrauen und die frühe Verbreitung der Internetnutzung im Gesellschaftsvergleich
The Civilizational Project and LTS Discontents
I agree with the point of an anonymous reviewer arguing that a pro-found discussion on the prerequisites of a viable global market society has too many facets to be contained within the bounds of a single journal article. Yet, in order to enter the debate now we should not wait until book length treatments become available-often only after years. This is, therfore, an essay attempting to overview various conflicts and contradictions within the gl…
Social Stratification and Mobility in the World System
This article briefly reviews earlier as well as recent approaches to world social stratification and highlights changes in paradigms similar to those in national stratification research. One reason for conceptual similarities in both fields is increasing social differentiation, which triggered reconceptualizations. In reviewing different approaches, the article focuses on the innovative contributions of network analysis, which entered world strat…
Conflicts and New Departures in World Society
This third volume in the World Society Studies series focuses on a central theme: how market mechanisms can correct the world welfare deficit also resolve the environmental crisis through processes of sustainable development. The two editors trace how such objectives have been addressed since the 1960s, describe the parameters of the debate. and New Departures in World Society contains original research on confluences fissures in emerging world s…
Die westeuropäische Integration als Gesellschaftsmodell im Zentrumswettbewerb
Hegemonic Decline, West European Unification, and the Future Structure of the Core
This paper queries the applicability of hegemonic cycle theories to the emerging structure in the core of the world political economy and argues that we are likely, following this period of relative decline in American hegemony, to witness the emergence of hegemonic social practices in the absence, however, of a hegemonic state. Contrasting new beginnings with past patterns, we will suggest arguments why history will not be repeated. Drawing on o…
Conflicts and New Departures in World Society
Waves, Formations and Values in the World System
The Rise of the European Community
(1994). The Rise of the European Community. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 24, Sociological Perspectives on a Changing Europe Paradoxes of Socioeconomic, Political, and Cultural Transformation, pp. 62-96
World Society Studies, Vol. 1
Transnational Corporations
Legitimacy and comparative economic success at the core of the world system
This paper suggests that comparative economic success is influenced by political choices which themselves are linked to the competitive world system. Governments produce social order (or protection) as a territorially bounded public utility, which is seen as a productive force. Citizens invest a social order with differing degrees of legitimacy which is thus, via motivation, an important competitive resource. A multiple regression design covering…
Social stratification in six western countries
Transnational corporations and underdevelopment
The Role of MNCs in Economic Growth
Szymanski (1984) disputes in his comment my conclusions concerning the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in development that I presented in an issue of this journal (Bornschier, 1981). I strongly disagree with him when he maintains that my results are clearly fallacious. The theoretical proposition of Szymanski seems to be that either with relative isolation from the world capitalist markets or private capitalism with dependence on foreig…
World economy, level development and income distribution
Reply to Szymanski
Bildung, Beruf und Arbeitseinkommen
Der Aufsatz behandelt die Verknüpfung zwischen zwei wichtigen Dimensionen der sozialen Schichtung, der Bildung und dem Einkommen. Zwei für die Analyse der Sozialstruktur zentrale Fragen - Was begründet den Zusammenhang zwischen formaler Bildung und dem Arbeitseinkommen? Warum ist dieser Zusammenhang nicht besonders stark? - werden anhand von vier Theorien diskutiert. Es handelt sich einmal um die Legitimationstheorie, weiter um die Humankapital-T…
Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality
As an outgrowth of dependency theories of national development, there have been a large number of cross-national empirical studies of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and inequality. This paper reviews these studies in order to discover what can be concluded about these relationships. Our strategy is as follows: First, we discuss the conceptualization of the four main variables at issue. Second, we discuss the differen…
Income Inequality
Multinational corporations and economic growth
Dependent Industrialization in the World Economy
Recent cross-national studies that analyze the impact of multinational corporations in the world economy on economic growth and inequality in peripheral and core countries have been interpreted as empirical tests of "dependencia" theories. Such a limited interpretation does not fully acknowledge the theoretical approach of some researchers who contributed to the findings. Although several cross-national findings are not at variance with dependenc…
Changing Income Inequality in the Second Half of the 20th Century Preliminary Findings and Propositions for Explanations
There exists a rather widespread professional consensus that income inequality both within and between societies in the world system has increased over the last quarter of a century. This, however, does not represent a secular trend since inequality between WWII and the 1970s was rather stable or decreasing. For the increasing inequality both within and between societies since the 1970s we present fresh evidence which helps to settle open questio…
World economy, level development and income distribution
Transnational Corporations in World Development Still the Same Harmful Effects in an Increasingly Globalized World Economy
Transnational corporations (TNCs) have reached historically unprecedented weight and power in the world s political economy. Thus, the old question of how these corporations a?ect global development is nowadays more signi?cant than ever. While some scholars claim that corporate globalization will eventually close the worldwide development gap, many others contend that TNC activities lead to insu?cient exploitation of growth potentials within the …
Some Recent Explanations of Income Inequality
Journal Article Comment Get access Volker Bornschier Volker Bornschier University of Zurich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 283–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600357 Published: 01 June 1981
Political and economic logic of western european integration
One of the few cross-national studies, which contrast members of the EU with a comparable set of other countries as benchmark, suggested that membership is beneficial for economic growth and may cause faster economic convergence of less wealthy EU member states. Employing a newly collected data set on inter-state transfers in the EU, we test whether this faster economic convergence is due to access to the Internal Market (proposition of the econ…
Economic Policy and Multinational Corporations in Development
In this article we report the main findings of a research project at the University of Zurich on Multinational Corporations, Economic Policy and National Development in the World System. For reasons of space the focus is on cross-national empirical findings rather than on theoretical discussion. Dimensions of economic policy against multinational corporations are established and operationalized. A combination of these dimensions is the basis of a…
Legitimacy and comparative economic success at the core of the world system
This paper suggests that comparative economic success is influenced by political choices which themselves are linked to the competitive world system. Governments produce social order (or protection) as a territorially bounded public utility, which is seen as a productive force. Citizens invest a social order with differing degrees of legitimacy which is thus, via motivation, an important competitive resource. A multiple regression design covering…
Dependence on Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
The Double Dividend of Expanding Education for Development
Education has been used in models of both econometricians and sociologists to explain differences in the speed of economic development. This important field of research is, however, theoretically underspecified, and the empirical tests have remained incomplete for they only model the direct effects of education suggested by the human capital school. This article complements this individualistic view by also considering functions of education stre…
The Civilizational Project and LTS Discontents
I agree with the point of an anonymous reviewer arguing that a pro-found discussion on the prerequisites of a viable global market society has too many facets to be contained within the bounds of a single journal article. Yet, in order to enter the debate now we should not wait until book length treatments become available-often only after years. This is, therfore, an essay attempting to overview various conflicts and contradictions within the gl…
Hegemonic Decline, West European Unification, and the Future Structure of the Core
This paper queries the applicability of hegemonic cycle theories to the emerging structure in the core of the world political economy and argues that we are likely, following this period of relative decline in American hegemony, to witness the emergence of hegemonic social practices in the absence, however, of a hegemonic state. Contrasting new beginnings with past patterns, we will suggest arguments why history will not be repeated. Drawing on o…
Transnational Corporations
Social stratification in six western countries
The Role of MNCs in Economic Growth
Szymanski (1984) disputes in his comment my conclusions concerning the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in development that I presented in an issue of this journal (Bornschier, 1981). I strongly disagree with him when he maintains that my results are clearly fallacious. The theoretical proposition of Szymanski seems to be that either with relative isolation from the world capitalist markets or private capitalism with dependence on foreig…
Statusinkonsistenz und Schichtung
First, it is asked whether the contributions to status inconsistency research can be considered as tests of the theoretical concept of status inconsistency. The central elements of the theoretical concepts are then dealt with and some theoretical approaches are described which fit into the framework of these common elements. The status inconsistency theory which is presented afterwards takes into account the coexistence of different norms of cons…
Statusinkonsistenz und Schichtung
First, it is asked whether the contributions to status inconsistency research can be considered as tests of the theoretical concept of status inconsistency. The central elements of the theoretical concepts are then dealt with and some theoretical approaches are described which fit into the framework of these common elements. The status inconsistency theory which is presented afterwards takes into account the coexistence of different norms of cons…
Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality
As an outgrowth of dependency theories of national development, there have been a large number of cross-national empirical studies of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and inequality. This paper reviews these studies in order to discover what can be concluded about these relationships. Our strategy is as follows: First, we discuss the conceptualization of the four main variables at issue. Second, we discuss the differen…
Income Inequality
Multinational corporations and economic growth
Arbeitsteilung, strukturelle Mobilität und Klassenbildung. Eine theoretische Perspektive für die Mobilitätsforschung
Dieser Beitrag stellt mehrere theoretische Überlegungen zur Diskussion, die vernachlässigte Aspekte der Berufsmobilitätsforschung betreffen. Zunächst wird eine Neuorientierung der Mobilitätsforschung in Richtung der Erforschung der Gründe und Folgen von struktureller Mobilität empfohlen. Die vorgeschlagene Theorie befaßt sich mit wichtigen Veränderungen der beruflichen Arbeitsteilung. Ein solcher Ansatz erlaubt, bestimmte strukturelle Positionen …
Dependent Industrialization in the World Economy
Recent cross-national studies that analyze the impact of multinational corporations in the world economy on economic growth and inequality in peripheral and core countries have been interpreted as empirical tests of "dependencia" theories. Such a limited interpretation does not fully acknowledge the theoretical approach of some researchers who contributed to the findings. Although several cross-national findings are not at variance with dependenc…
Some Recent Explanations of Income Inequality
Journal Article Comment Get access Volker Bornschier Volker Bornschier University of Zurich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 283–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600357 Published: 01 June 1981
Economic Policy and Multinational Corporations in Development
In this article we report the main findings of a research project at the University of Zurich on Multinational Corporations, Economic Policy and National Development in the World System. For reasons of space the focus is on cross-national empirical findings rather than on theoretical discussion. Dimensions of economic policy against multinational corporations are established and operationalized. A combination of these dimensions is the basis of a…
Bildung, Beruf und Arbeitseinkommen
Der Aufsatz behandelt die Verknüpfung zwischen zwei wichtigen Dimensionen der sozialen Schichtung, der Bildung und dem Einkommen. Zwei für die Analyse der Sozialstruktur zentrale Fragen - Was begründet den Zusammenhang zwischen formaler Bildung und dem Arbeitseinkommen? Warum ist dieser Zusammenhang nicht besonders stark? - werden anhand von vier Theorien diskutiert. Es handelt sich einmal um die Legitimationstheorie, weiter um die Humankapital-T…
Dependence on Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
World economy, level development and income distribution
Reply to Szymanski
The Role of MNCs in Economic Growth
Szymanski (1984) disputes in his comment my conclusions concerning the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in development that I presented in an issue of this journal (Bornschier, 1981). I strongly disagree with him when he maintains that my results are clearly fallacious. The theoretical proposition of Szymanski seems to be that either with relative isolation from the world capitalist markets or private capitalism with dependence on foreig…
Transnational corporations and underdevelopment
Social stratification in six western countries
Legitimacy and comparative economic success at the core of the world system
This paper suggests that comparative economic success is influenced by political choices which themselves are linked to the competitive world system. Governments produce social order (or protection) as a territorially bounded public utility, which is seen as a productive force. Citizens invest a social order with differing degrees of legitimacy which is thus, via motivation, an important competitive resource. A multiple regression design covering…
Transnational Corporations
World Society Studies, Vol. 1
Waves, Formations and Values in the World System
The Rise of the European Community
(1994). The Rise of the European Community. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 24, Sociological Perspectives on a Changing Europe Paradoxes of Socioeconomic, Political, and Cultural Transformation, pp. 62-96
Die westeuropäische Integration als Gesellschaftsmodell im Zentrumswettbewerb
Hegemonic Decline, West European Unification, and the Future Structure of the Core
This paper queries the applicability of hegemonic cycle theories to the emerging structure in the core of the world political economy and argues that we are likely, following this period of relative decline in American hegemony, to witness the emergence of hegemonic social practices in the absence, however, of a hegemonic state. Contrasting new beginnings with past patterns, we will suggest arguments why history will not be repeated. Drawing on o…
Conflicts and New Departures in World Society
Social Stratification and Mobility in the World System
This article briefly reviews earlier as well as recent approaches to world social stratification and highlights changes in paradigms similar to those in national stratification research. One reason for conceptual similarities in both fields is increasing social differentiation, which triggered reconceptualizations. In reviewing different approaches, the article focuses on the innovative contributions of network analysis, which entered world strat…
Conflicts and New Departures in World Society
This third volume in the World Society Studies series focuses on a central theme: how market mechanisms can correct the world welfare deficit also resolve the environmental crisis through processes of sustainable development. The two editors trace how such objectives have been addressed since the 1960s, describe the parameters of the debate. and New Departures in World Society contains original research on confluences fissures in emerging world s…
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