Erich Weede
Biographic Data
| ID | 245312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erich Weede |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erich |
| FAMILY NAME | Weede |
| SIGNATURE | WEEDE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 978 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung: 31. Jahrgang 2019
The 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles has inspired this yearbook to fundamentally reflect on the relationship between liberalism and peace. The spectrum it covers ranges from Kant’s reception of the peace orders of 1648 and 1919 to the beginning of ‘peace research’. Another of the book’s foci is the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Naumann.
Considering a Chinese Sphere of Influence: North Korean Nuclear Weapons Should Not Be an American Problem
Twenty years from now, the Chinese economy might be twice as large as that of the United Sates. Since great powers have always claimed spheres of influence, this raises the issue of what characteristics a Chinese sphere of influence might have. Currently, the Chinese sphere of influence is still rather fuzzy. But one might argue that North Korea is part of it. After all, the Chinese fought the Korean War in order to prevent all of Korea becoming …
Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung
den Blick auf das europäische "Age of Extremes" (Hobsbawm) des 20.Jahrhunderts mit seinen cäsaristischen Volksherrschern wendet, weiß die Vorzüge des normengeleiteten rechtsstaatlichen Verfahrens durchaus zu schätzen.Bereits Manfred Rauh sah das Kaiserreich auf dem Weg einer "stillen Parlamentarisierung". 50 Margaret Lavinia Anderson 51 hat das von Bismarck eingeführte allgemeine, gleiche und direkte Männerwahlrecht des deutschen Reiches dahingeh…
Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung
Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung
Zu "sagen [...], ‚ich unterschreibe Alles, Hunde sind wir ja doch!' halte ich des Mannes, des Christen unwürdig" 1 -Zivilcourage im Vormärz I
Entwicklungslnder In Der Weltgesellschaft
Freiheit und Verantwortung, Aufstieg und Niedergang: Freiheit und Verantwortung, Aufstieg und Niedergang
Dies ist die überarbeitete Fassung der Freiburger Friedrich A. von Hayek-Vorlesung 2011, gehalten auf Einladung des Walter Eucken Instituts und der Friedrich A. von Hayek Gesellschaft e. V. in Freiburg im Breisgau am 22. November 2011. Sie gliedert sich in drei Teile: Die Einleitung behandelt die Themen Anreize, Freiheit und Verantwortung; sie baut wesentlich auf den Erkenntnissen von Smith, Mises und Hayek auf. Daraufhin behandelt Erich Weede di…
Globalisierung im Fokus von Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft: Eine Bestandsaufnahme
The Capitalist Peace and the Rise of China: Establishing Global Harmony by Economic Interdependence
Historically, the rise and fall of great powers has been related to great wars. Both world wars of the twentieth century would not have been possible without the previous industrialization and rise
The Rise of India: Overcoming Caste Society and Permit-License-Quota Raj, Implementing Some Economic Freedom
Two or three centuries ago most of mankind was still very poor. When the West outgrew mass poverty, India was a British colony and suffered from stagnation. When East Asian economies exploited the advantages of backwardness and benefited from export-led growth, India remained inward-looking and poor. The 'Hindu rate of growth' preserved mass poverty. Since the reforms of the early 1990s India has exploited the advantages of backwardness and some …
Geopolitics, Economic Freedom and Growth in China and the West
Three hundred years ago China and Europe were about equally poor. Then the West forged ahead of Asian societies, thereby generating rising global income disparities until the end of the 20th century. Since 1979 the Chinese have raised per capita incomes sevenfold. This history of economic performance poses two explanatory challenges. Why did China fall behind Europe or the West? Why has China started to close the income gap recently? Here, a unit…
Inseln der Rationalität: Wie überwindet man fehlerhafte Entscheidungen auf dem Markt, in der Wissenschaft und in der Politik
Rationality is the attempt to cope with human fallibility. It presupposes individual freedom and responsibility where responsibility includes suffering from one’s errors. If humans are fallible, then one of the most important characteristics of a social order is whether or not it provides mechanisms for eliminating and correcting errors. It is easiest to institutionalize rationality in an economy. Contestable markets, competition and the threat o…
Globalization and Inequality
Globalization may be defined by a worldwide division of labor and increasing trade between nations. This is inconceivable without expanding economic freedom across the world. Free trade and globalization increase competition, productivity, and economic growth rates. In spite of increasing inequality within many large economies - including the US, China, and Russia - inequality between human beings and households has been reduced. Since catch-up g…
Capitalism, Democracy and the War in Iraq
Although Saddam Hussein was a bloody tyrant, and although deposing him served a noble purpose, one still may doubt the wisdom of the American war against Iraq. It is quite dubious whether the democratisation of Iraq can serve as a justification of the American war effort. Properly understood, the democratic peace proposition does not promise that poor, emerging, and illiberal democracies surrounded by autocracies are more peaceful than autocracie…
Living with the Transatlantic Drift
Comparative Economic Development in China and Japan
Three hundred years ago per capita incomes in China and Japan were about equal and fairly close to the global mean. At the end of the twentieth century Japanese per capita incomes are about as high as Western incomes and about seven times as high as Chinese incomes. How could this happen? Manchu China and Tokugawa Japan did not establish equally safe property rights for merchants and producers as the West did. But political fragmentation and feud…
On Political Violence and its Avoidance
Does Human Capital Strongly Affect Economic Growth Rates? Yes, But Only If Assessed Properly
Although modern growth theories regard human capital endowment as a determinant of economic growth rates, econometric research does not consistently support this view by empirical evidence. In principle, this discrepancy might arise either from misleading theories or from poor measurement of human capital endowment. Here, it is argued that poor measurement is the culprit, and that one should substitute results from psychological testing, i.e.IQ, …
Mensch, Markt und Staat: Plädoyer für eine Wirtschaftsordnung für unvollkommene Menschen
Hauptwerke der Ungleichheitsforschung
Die zentralen Werke der Ungleichheitsforschung werden gut verstandlich und kompakt in ihren Hauptaussagen dargestellt.
China and Russia: On the Rise and Decline of Two Nations
In the late 1970s, the economic size ratio between the Soviet Union and China was 4 to 1. In 2001, the ratio between Russia and China was less than 1 to 4, or even less than 1 to 5, if one includes Hong Kong with China. Although the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union contributed to this profound reversal of economic strength, domestic factors have been more important: decollectivization of Chinese agriculture versus an unwillingness to …
Evolution und Planung: Überlegungen zur Wirtschafts- und Friedensordnung
Although individuals cannot desist from planning, social processes cannot be commanded and controlled successfully. The shortcomings and disadvantages of holistic planning and the likelihood of plan failure can be explained: Scattered knowledge can be mobilized, innovation and effort can be elicited only where planning does not displace economic freedom and competition. The positive effects of freedom and competition and the negative effects of c…
The Transition to Capitalism in China and Russia
At the end of the 1970s the per capita income ratio between the Soviet Union and China was 16 to 1. By now, the gap between Russia and China is closing rapidly. Although the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union contributed to this levelling of per capita incomes, domestic factors and improvements in China look more important: decollectivization of Chinese agriculture, the establishment of township village enterprises in China, economic op…
Korea and Russia: How to Grow Rich or to Remain Poor
Asien und der Westen: Politische und kulturelle Determinanten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (Asia and the West: Political and Cultural Determinants of Economic Development)
Cross-National Variation in Political Violence: A Rational Action Approach
Propositions about determinants of political violence at the cross-national level are derived from rational action theory and tested across the entire population of independent states in the mid-1970s. The data support two rational action hypotheses: Rates of domestic political violence are higher at intermediate levels of both regime repressiveness and negative sanctions than at either low or high levels of these indicators of institutionalized …
Democracy and War Involvement
Most quantitative researchers had agreed that regime type and war involvement are not significantly related to each other until Rummel recently challenged this consensus. According to Rummel, libertarian or democratic states are less intensively involved in foreign conflict and tend to participate in wars less often than do other states. Rummel's assertion is disputed in this article. Relying on various definitions of war and compilations of data…
Overwhelming Preponderance as a Pacifying Condition Among Contiguous Asian Dyads, 1950–1969
It has been proposed that preponderance of power is favorable to the prevention of war, whereas relative equality of power is conducive to war. Here, the “preponderance promotes peace” proposition is applied to dyads. The author modifies this proposition by claiming that only overwhelming or ten-to-one preponderance substantially reduces the risk of war. Moreover, the “overwhelming preponderance promotes peace” proposition is placed in a wider th…
Extended Deterrence by Superpower Alliance
Research in quantitative international politics and peace science is dominated by two puzzles and their corresponding research designs. (1) Why do some nations fight wars more often than others? (2) Which system characteristics contribute to war? What is often neglected is a third puzzle: Why do particular nations fight each other? Dyadic analyses are most useful for dealing with this problem, and can be used to test the preferred policy of natio…
Some Recent Explanations of Income Inequality: An Evaluation and Critique
This article attempts to evaluate five alternative explanations of the size distribution of income. It is based on a regression analysis of inequality data from 71 countries and different explanatory variables taken from various theoretical approaches. Also, the proper specification of the relationship between economic development and income inequality is used. The following tentative conclusions are reached: First, the most important correlate o…
Beyond Misspecification in Sociological Analyses of Income Inequality
Some Simple Calculations on Democracy and War Involvement
The empirical evidence on democracy and war involvement indicates two quite robust findings. First, democracies do not differ from other regimes in their degree of war involvement. Second, war is extremely rare between democracies. So, the pacifying impact of democracy is restricted to relations between democracies. This finding is at odds with some of my previous empirical work (Weede, 1983, 1989), where only extended deterrence by superpower al…
Arms Races and Escalation: Some Persisting Doubts (Response To Wallace's Article, Jcr, March 1979)
U.S. Support for Foreign Governments: Or Domestic Disorder and Imperial Intervention, 1958–1965
Rent Seeking, Military Participation, and Economic Performance in LDCs
Rent seeking is an attempt to distort prices in order to achieve a contrived transfer. Where rent seeking is on the rampage, there is a serious distortion of incentives. Investing resources in distributional struggles and political conflict looks rewarding, whereas increasing or improving output looks less attractive. Moreover, price distortions interfere with an efficient allocation of resources. That is why we should expect rent seeking and res…
Income Inequality and Political Violence Reconsidered
Three Dependency Explanations of Economic Growth: A Critical Evaluation
Three different dependency explanations of economic growth are evaluated through cross‐sectional regression analyses for 98 countries between 1960 and 1977, using logged GNPC, its square, gross domestic investment and the military participation ratio as control variables. Galtung's A Structural Theory of Imperialism seems to contain one useful predictor of economic growth, commodity concentration, which hurts the growth prospects of nations, but …
Some new evidence on correlates of political violence: Income Inequality, Regime Repressiveness, and Economic Development
Sociological research on political protest and violence either attempts to explain violence by absolute or relative deprivation or by rational action, resource mobilisation and political power (or by some combination of these factors). Although the connection between these theoretical approaches and crossnational studies rests on little more than considerations of plausibility, monotonic linkages between the level of economic development or incom…
Sectoral reallocation, distributional coalitions and the welfare state as determinants of economic growth rates in industrialized democracies
This paper investigates three propositions about economic growth. It rejects the proposition that differences in the size of the agricultural sector or in opportunities to reallocate resources from this sector to other sectors of the economy significantly contribute to the explanation of differential growth rates among industrialized democracies. It supports Olson's proposition that long lasting democracies suffer from an accumulation of distribu…
Catch-up, Distributional Coalitions and Government as Determinants of Economic Growth or Decline in Industrialized Democracies
This article investigates three propositions about economic growth and two about unemployment. It rejects the proposition that technology gaps between nations provide opportunities of backwardness which significantly contribute to the explanation of differential growth rates among industrialized democracies. It supports Olson's proposition that long lasting democracies suffer from an accumulation of distributional coalitions whose rentseeking act…
Democracy, creeping socialism, and ideological socialism in rent-seeking societies
Theories of Rebellion: Relative Deprivation and Power Contention
Hypotheses to explain cross-national variation in levels of rebellious political conflict can be grounded principally either in relative deprivation assumptions of frustration-aggression theory or in expected utility assumptions or rational choice theory. Previous theory and research have tended to focus exclusively on one or the other approach or else have combined the two eclectically. To evaluate the validity of these competing theories in com…
The Effects of Democracy and Socialist Strength on the Size Distribution of Income: Some more Evidence
The Impact of Democracy or Repressiveness on the Quality of Life, Income Distribution and Economic Growth Rates
This paper is a comprehensive attempt to evaluate the effects of a democracy-repressiveness scale on the quality of life, income inequality and economic growth rates. Data analyses refer to the 1980s and as wide a sample as is feasible. Because of problems of data quality and data availability, this constraint affects the inequality analyses much more severely than other analyses. In general, there are no significant effects of democracy or repre…
The Effects of Democracy and Socialist Strength on the Size Distribution of Income
Rebellion, Violence and Revolution: A Rational Choice Perspective
There are many rebellions, fewer successful rebellions, and extremely few social revolutions. First, the relative frequencies of elite and mass rebellions are investigated. Because a rational choice approach finds it easier to explain elite rebellions and a deprivation approach seems tailored to the explanation of mass rebellions, the relative frequencies of these two types of rebellion favor rational choice. Second, the small number of mass rebe…
Political regime type and variation in economic growth rates
Economic Policy and International Security: Rent-Seeking, Free Trade and Democratic Peace
Although states engaging in free trade may go to war against each other, free trade nevertheless promotes the avoidance of war, although not necessarily directly nor instantaneously. Free trade promotes prosperity and prosperity promotes democracy. Democracies do not fight each other, i.e. they constitute separate zones of peace. Also there is some feedback from zones of peace, whether defined by hegemony or alliances, to free trade. In order to …
The Capitalist Peace and the Rise of China: Establishing Global Harmony by Economic Interdependence
Historically, the rise and fall of great powers has been related to great wars. Both world wars of the twentieth century would not have been possible without the previous industrialization and rise
Some Criticism of Recent Work on World System Status, Inequality, and Democracy
Bollen (1983) and Nolan (1983b) claim that world system status influences income distribution and democratic performance in less developed countries for the worse. While they did control for the effects of the level of economic development and while they could demonstrate that the Snyder and Kick (1979) measures of world system status contribute to the explanation of cross-national variance in inequality and democracy, they investigated neither t…
Conflict Behavior of Nation-States
Overwhelming Preponderance as a Pacifying Condition Among Contiguous Asian Dyads, 1950–1969
It has been proposed that preponderance of power is favorable to the prevention of war, whereas relative equality of power is conducive to war. Here, the “preponderance promotes peace” proposition is applied to dyads. The author modifies this proposition by claiming that only overwhelming or ten-to-one preponderance substantially reduces the risk of war. Moreover, the “overwhelming preponderance promotes peace” proposition is placed in a wider th…
Einführung in die konfirmatorische Faktorenanalyse / Introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis
This paper is an attempt to discuss the principles of confirmatory factor analysis in a fairly simple way and without recourse to mathematical techniques which are either difficult or not well-known among German social scientists. Merely knowledge of the fundamentals of path analysis as well as of classical or exploratory factor analysis is taken for granted. Beside first-order factors, second-order factors are introduced. Assumptions and charact…
Threats to Détente: Intuitive Hopes and Counterintuitive Realities
The theoretical perspective behind détente is elaborated. While avoidance of war is the major goal, cooperation, tension‐reduction and improvement of domestic societies are the major means. Cooperation includes trade, legal commitments, functional cooperation within IGOs and routine diplomacy. Tension reduction includes less verbal conflict, less defense expenditures, a slower arms race and possibly multipolarization. Improvement of domestic soci…
Internes und externes Konfliktverhalten von Nationen, 1966 – 1967 / Internal and External Conflict Behavior of Nations, 1966 - 1967
In this article a hypothesis proposed and tested by RUMMEL is taken up again: external and internal conflict are unrelated to each other. In our attempt at replication we use data for 125 nations and for the years 1966-67. Like RUMMEL we use exploratory factor analysis and regression, and, in addition, confirmatory factor analysis. Results from exploratory factor analysis seem to support RUMMEL’s conclusions. Yet confirmatory factor analysis reve…
U.S. Support for Foreign Governments: Or Domestic Disorder and Imperial Intervention, 1958–1965
External and Internal Conflict Behavior Among Nations, 1966-1967
In this article we attempt to replicate the hypothesis tested by Rummel and others that external and internal conflict are unrelated. We do this using data for 125 nations for the years 1966-1967. As did Rummel, we use exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis; in addition, we also employ confirmatory factor analysis. Results from confirmatory factor analysis contradict Rummel and reveal moderately strong correlations between internal a…
Weltpolitische und ökonomische Determinanten einer ungleichen Einkommensverteilung: Eine international vergleichende Studie
In diesem Aufsatz werden zwei Erklärungsansätze für das unterschiedliche Ausmaß der Ungleichheit der Einkommensverteilung in Gesellschaften betrachtet. Nach Kuznets ist die Einkommensverteilung sowohl auf sehr niedrigem als auch bei hohem Wohlstands- bzw. Modernisierungsniveau relativ egalitär, bei mittlerem Niveau aber besonders inegalitär. Nach Andreski steigt die Gleichheit der Einkommensverteilung mit der weltpolitischen Gefährdung einer Gese…
Arms Races and Escalation: Some Persisting Doubts (Response To Wallace's Article, Jcr, March 1979)
Beyond Misspecification in Sociological Analyses of Income Inequality
Preventing War by Nuclear Deterrence or by Détente
Correlates of The Size Distribution of Income in Cross-National Analyses
Some Recent Explanations of Income Inequality: Rejoinder
Journal Article Rejoinder Get access Erich Weede, Erich Weede Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Horst Tiefenbach Horst Tiefenbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 289–293, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600358 Published: 01 June 1981
Some Recent Explanations of Income Inequality: An Evaluation and Critique
This article attempts to evaluate five alternative explanations of the size distribution of income. It is based on a regression analysis of inequality data from 71 countries and different explanatory variables taken from various theoretical approaches. Also, the proper specification of the relationship between economic development and income inequality is used. The following tentative conclusions are reached: First, the most important correlate o…
Three Dependency Explanations of Economic Growth: A Critical Evaluation
Three different dependency explanations of economic growth are evaluated through cross‐sectional regression analyses for 98 countries between 1960 and 1977, using logged GNPC, its square, gross domestic investment and the military participation ratio as control variables. Galtung's A Structural Theory of Imperialism seems to contain one useful predictor of economic growth, commodity concentration, which hurts the growth prospects of nations, but …
Gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse und Einkommensverteilung: Ein kritischer Replikationsversuch zu einer Studie von Bornschier und Ballmer-Cao
Für Lenski (1973) ist die Machtverteilung die entscheidende Determinante der Privilegien- und Einkommensverteilung. Bornschier und Ballmer-Cao (1979, 1980) haben diesen Grundgedanken in einen international vergleichenden Untersuchungsplan umgesetzt. Landkonzentration, Drohstärke der Lohnabhängigen, Bürokratisierung und Staatsquote sind ihre Indikatoren der Machtverteilung und ihre Determinanten der Einkommensverteilung. In der vorliegenden Studie…
A Reply to Bornschier
The Effects of Democracy and Socialist Strength on the Size Distribution of Income: Some more Evidence
The Effects of Democracy and Socialist Strength on the Size Distribution of Income
West German elite views on national security issues: Evidence from a 1980/81 survey of experts∗
Extended Deterrence by Superpower Alliance
Research in quantitative international politics and peace science is dominated by two puzzles and their corresponding research designs. (1) Why do some nations fight wars more often than others? (2) Which system characteristics contribute to war? What is often neglected is a third puzzle: Why do particular nations fight each other? Dyadic analyses are most useful for dealing with this problem, and can be used to test the preferred policy of natio…
Kosten-Nutzen-Kalküle als Grundlage einer allgemeinen Konfliktsoziologie
Dies ist ein Versuch, eine Erklärungsskizze oder theoretische Perspektive für die Auseinandersetzung mit Macht, Konflikt und sozialem Wandel aufzuzeigen. Dieser Versuch basiert auf dem methodologischen Individualismus und der Wert-Erwartungs- oder Nutzentheorie. Konflikthandlungen werden als das Resultat von Kosten-Nutzen-Kalkülen angesehen, nicht als Folge von absoluten oder relativen Deprivationen. Eine unüberwindliche Ursache sozialer Konflikt…
Political democracy, state strength and economic growth in LDCs: A cross-national analysis
While economic growth is not a sufficient condition for the elimination of hunger and abject poverty, it certainly looks like a necessary condition, particularly in the poorest countries (Ahluwalia, Carter and Chenery? 1979), So economic growth is desirable, and desired, in the third world (irrespective of one's evaluation of the effects of growth in industrialized, high income countries). As well as pressures for growth? there are internal and e…
Democracy, creeping socialism, and ideological socialism in rent-seeking societies
Democracy and War Involvement
Most quantitative researchers had agreed that regime type and war involvement are not significantly related to each other until Rummel recently challenged this consensus. According to Rummel, libertarian or democratic states are less intensively involved in foreign conflict and tend to participate in wars less often than do other states. Rummel's assertion is disputed in this article. Relying on various definitions of war and compilations of data…
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