Also from PRB, Beyond Six Billion. click on Population Bulletin and then 1999
Also see a review of Beyond Six Billion at http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7322/1193.1.full This review is somewhat critical.Secretary-General's Report --- World Demographic Trends http://www.un-ngls.org/orf/update.htm "the present report provides an overview of demographic trends worldwide, for major areas and selected countries. It covers population size and growth, urbanization and city growth, population ageing, fertility and contraception, mortality and international migration." This report is from 2004, about half way down the page.
Asian Metacentre research
papers http://www.populationasia.org/index.htm
has
a
lot
of
papers
about
various
population
topics,
mainly
about
pop
change
in
asia,
causes
and consequences. As of March 2003, click on publications, then
on research paper series. These papers are free.
RANDs Population and Aging http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/population-and-aging.html
has lots of reports like "China and India: The Asian Giants are
Heading Down Different Demographic Paths" and "Europe's
demography: Are babies back? The recent recovery in EU period
fertility due to older childbearing" from 2011.
Long-Term Global Demographic
Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape
listed at https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/index.html
Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy
Challenges http://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/research/escp/escp-2004.cfm
2004
symposium
papers
sponsored
by
the
Federal
Reserve
Bank
of
Kansas
City.
A
2000
symposium
was "Global Economic Integration: Opportunities and
Challenges"
The Demographic Transition http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm By Keith Montgomery. Brief overview of world demographic transitions, and some examples.
Globalization
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Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
GaWC
was
initially
set
up
as
a
vehicle
for
organising
world
city
research
at
Loughborough
University.
It is in the process of developing and expanding into a teaching
resource and a site of interest for those working in advanced
city services in both the private and public sectors.
Center for
the Study of Globalization and Regionalization Working Paper
Series: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/
See
research
and
then
working
papers.
Many
papers
about
globalization,
some
on
specific
topics,
some
more general, for example two papers from 2002 are
Democratisation in East Asia, and Explaining systemic change:
The political economy of post-communist transformations.
Two papers from 1999 are Approaching the Global Polity by Morten
Ougaard, and Global Civil Society: Changing the World? by Jan
Aart Scholte.
Global
Transformations http://www.polity.co.uk/global/
"Polity Global Transformations text-site, devised by
David Held and Anthony McGrew. On these pages you
will find a whole host of information on globalization,
including: researching globalization, globalization, interviews,
links to sites of related interest, an executive summary
of the key features of globalization."
Can There be
a Global Society? http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eccps/etzioni/articles2.html
paper
by
Amitai
Etzioni
(#380),
very
brief
review
of
some
issues,
e.g.,
definition
of
society,
will
global society require global state. Other papers of interest
are there too.
Center for global
studies http://www.globalcentres.org/
some interesting on line publications. Click on
publications, then see Altered States: Globalization,
Sovereignty, and Governance, listed in publications.
I think it's completely available on line. This book is at
least partly about "explore the dynamics of globalization and
discuss what makes today's globalization distinct."
Jeffery Williamson's papers on the
web http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/jwilliamworkingpapers
bunch
of
globalization
papers.
"Winners
and
losers
over
two
centuries
of
globalization",
"Globalization
in
Latin
America
before 1940" and more.
Does Globalization Affect
Growth? http://www.axel-dreher.de/
by
Axel
Dreher.
This
site
includes
data.
According
to
the
abstract,
"The
paper
presents
an
index
of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic
integration, social integration, and political integration.
Using panel data for 123 countries in 1970-2000 it is analyzed
empirically whether the overall index of globalization as well
as sub-indexes constructed to measure the single dimensions
affect economic growth. The results show that globalization
promotes growth – but not to an extent necessary to reduce
poverty on a large scale."
This site is also listed on our data page.
Dialogue on
Globalization http://www.fes.de/globalization/ This "site presents
a variety of publications (of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung as
well as its partners) ranging from short briefing papers to
in-depth-studies. ... The project "Dialogue on
Globalization" is part of the international work of the
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - a German non-profit institution
committed to the principles of social democracy and with
offices, programs, and partners in more than 100 countries."
(this is from an email sent to me from one of their
participants).
The Globalization Web Site http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/ Theories, organizations, issues, people, etc...
Sites about changes
in political systems, eg, democracy, communism, conflict
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The Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Democracy, 1815-1995
http://www.Colorado.EDU/IBS/GAD/spacetime.html
see
especially
some
of
the
research,
such
as:
Democratizing
for
Peace.
This
article
shows
that
reversals
from democracy back toward autoritarian forms of government in
newly emerging democracies is associated with interstate war.
Moverments toward democracy are peace enhancing. The paper
The diffusion of democracy, 1946-94, is another paper. It
is also available at Society for Political Methodology working
papers site http://polmeth.wustl.edu/
in working papers, in the 1997 list.
Patterns of
Diffusion in the Third Wave of Democracy http://www.nd.edu:80/~mcoppedg/crd/papscrd.htm
by
Coppedge
and
Brinks.
They
trace
out
patterns
of
diffusion
of
democracy.
Among
other
results,
they
find support for a pattern of diffusion in which countries tend
to become more like their immediate geographic neighbors.
Also see his class page as of October 2004 for this chapter, Defining and Measuring
Democracy
Transforming
Post-Communist Political Economies http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5852
Published
by
National Academy Press, 1998. Joan M. Nelson, Charles
Tilly, and Lee Walker, Editors; Task Force on Economies in
Transition, National Research Council. 1998. You can
download entire book or chapters. "This ground-breaking
new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social,
and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New
Independent States. It includes a wide selection of analytic
papers, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars in diverse
fields, and an agenda for future research.".
Read our review here. http://gsociology.icaap.org/transforming.html
(and then click back to return to this page)
Center for the study of democracy http://www.democracy.uci.edu/
Their papers are here http://escholarship.org/uc/csd
A search for democracy returns papers like "Can Western
Democracy Models be institutionalized in Africa? Reviewing
Contemporary Problems and Prospects" Ezeanyika, Ezeanyika S.
Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 36:2, 2011, and
"Democratic Quality in Stable Democracies" Lijphart, Arend,
Society (1936-4725) 48:1, 2011
University of California International and Area Studies
digital collection http://escholarship.org/uc/gaia
couple of on line books about political change, such as Chinese
Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation.Yang,
Mayfair
Mei-hui, 2008
Cato Journal, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public
Policy Analysis http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/index.html
see
Volume
22
Number
3,
Winter
2003
for
a
couple
of
papers,
such
as
Abdiweli
M. Ali and Hoden Said Isse. "Determinants of Economic
Corruption: A Cross-Country Comparison" and John A. Tures,
"Economic Freedom and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from the
1970s, 1980s, and 1990s." See these issues, Volume 25 Number 3,
Fall 2005, Volume 24 Number 3, Fall 2004, with some articles
about how development happens, institutions and development, and
other issues.
Slavic Research Center,
Hokkaido University http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html
see
the
Proceedings
of
International
Symposia,
some
of
which
are
available
on
line.
The
2001
is http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/2001summer/2001summer-contents.html
Transformation and Diversification of Rural
Societies in Eastern Europe and Russia, and the 1999 is "Russian
Regions: Economic Growth and Environment". The 2003 is
"Democracy and Market Economics in Central and Eastern Europe."
New York Democracy Forum http://www.fpa.org/topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=271309
these
are
video's
of
talks.
Especially
has
a
talk,
"Do
We
Really
Know
How
to
Promote Democracy?" by Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz
Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns
Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies. Pdf's of the talks are also available.
The Roots of Democracy http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6588
By Carles Boix, professor of political science at the
University of Chicago. This article is in Hoover
Institutions Policy Review, Feb/March 2006. "Finally, short of
the path of economic modernization, democracy can be established
only through radical and violent change imposed from abroad. ...
To be sustainable, it needs considerable resources, exceptional
resoluteness, and, therefore, broad consensus at home. Without
generalized support, it ends up in failure."
Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict
Research http://www.hiik.de/index.html
has the Conflict Barometer reports showing conditions and
trends in conflict.
Journal of Democracy
http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/
Some articles are on line for free, varies from time to
time.
“State Building and
Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Forwards, Backwards, or
Together?” Bratton, Michael, and Eric Chang. Also in
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 39, No. 9, 1059-1083
(2006), http://cps.sagepub.com/content/39/9/1059.abstract
Working paper available here, https://www.msu.edu/~echang/Research/research.htm
at
Dr.
Chang's
home
page.
The
key
idea
is
"the
establishment
of
a
rule
of
law—as experienced through improvements in personal security and
the popular perception that leaders respect the constitution—is
critical to building democracy."
Democracy and Human Development http://www.bu.edu/sthacker/
but
I
get
a
tracker
pop
up
when
I
go
to
this
page.
Past
history
of democracy improves human development. This paper is by
John Gerring, Rodrigo Alfaro and Strom C. Thacker, all of whom
have additional interesting papers on their sites.
Gerardo Munck http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~munck/home/index.html
has a number of papers about democracy. See the
Research and Publications section. One example is “Democratic
Transitions,”
The Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict
Management http://www.berghof-conflictresearch.org/
especially of interest is their Berghof Handbook for
Conflict Transformation http://www.berghof-handbook.net/
with
many
interesting
chapters,
such
as
The
Civilisation
of
Conflict:
Constructive
Pacifism
as
a
Guiding
Notion for Conflict Transformation and Assessing the
State-of-the-Art in Conflict Transformation and many more.
Papers by Branko Milanovic here
a lot of papers about inequality.
Sources of Growth http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7792/
Audretsch, David. This link is to the
abstract. "The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a
fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD
countries, is taking place. This shift is from the managed
economy to the entrepreneurial economy." Can get copy of paper
here. The paper is from 1997
Global
Research Project: Explaining Growth http://www.gdnet.org/
comprehensive research project. Click on 'activities', then on
'global research projects'. Can't read the book here but can
read some key points.
Growth, Income Distribution,
and Poverty: A Review http://swopec.hhs.se/gunwpe/abs/gunwpe0032.htm "This paper
reviews the recent literature dealing with the relationships
between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This
generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in
income distribution during recent decades. Neither does it find
any systematic link from fast growth to increasing
inequality." Paper by Arne Bigsten and Jörgen Levin.
Economic
Growth Resources http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/
"These pages are designed as a resource for researchers studying
economic growth"
Center for
Social and Demographic Analysis Working Papers. http://csda.albany.edu/workpapers.asp
see Does Economic Inequality Promote Economic
Growth? A Cross-National Time-Series Analysis by
Lawrence E. Raffalovich, University at Albany, SUNY. Paper
number 2000-6.
Professor
Jeffrey G. Williamson's papers on the web http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/jwilliamworkingpapers
see
his
papers:
HIER
Paper
#1855:
Real
Wages
and
Relative
Factor
Prices
in
the
Third
World Before 1940: What Do they Tell Us about the sources of
Growth?. and NBER Paper #9161, Winners and Losers over two
centuries of globalization..
Social
Science Research Network Economic Growth
papers http://www.ssrn.com/link/economic-growth.html
papers
about
econ
growth.
For
example,
How
Robust
Is
The
Relationship
Between
Economic
Freedom
And
Economic
Growth, JAN-EGBERT STURM and JAKOB DE HAAN. and Structural
Change and Economic Growth, JOHN LAITNER. The working
papers can be downloaded. For accepted papers, you can
only see the abstract. But authors email addresses are
listed. Specific papers listed on this page are
continuously updated.
Population
and Economic Development http://econ.duke.edu/Papers/Abstracts00/abstract.00.06.html
working paper by Allen C. Kelley. This is a
systematic review of the major studies about population and
economic development.
Raising
Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa - What Can be
Done? http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/pdp/2000/pdp04.pdf
The paper is an IMF Policy Discussion Paper, listed here
http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
then search for title.
Finance & Development http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2006/06/index.htm
From IMF. A recent issue (March 2006) has articles about
'rethinking growth', and 'Globalization at Work', an article
about global employment trends.
Papers on
the Strategy of Reforms http://econ-server.umd.edu/~murrell/
see research / then 'reform strategies'. several papers
analyzing the strategy of reform in transition countries" by
peter murrell, including Evolution in Economics and in the
Economic Reform of the Centrally Planned Economies and
others.
Romain
Wacziarg's research http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/papersum.html
includes papers such as How Democracy Affects
Growth, and The Diffusion of Development. Also includes Review
of Easterly's “The Elusive Quest for Growth”.
USAID Forum Series on the Role of
Institutions in Promoting Economic Growth, Forum
Papers, http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/economic_growth_and_trade/eg/forum_series/index.html
These
papers
are
from
US
AID.
Papers
include
Comparative
Political
Economy
and
its
Relevance
for
Development Policy, and New Institutional Economics and
Development.
Jamus Jerome Lim's research
page http://www.jamus.name/
especially see a couple of papers, Role of State and East
Asia in the New Economy
Determinants
Of Economic Growth. Panel Data Approach. By:
Edwin Dewan And Shajehan Hussein
http://www.rbf.gov.fj/
see the working papers, it's Working Paper EDWP 2001-04.
from the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
Economic Freedom: The Path to
African Prosperity http://www.heritage.org/Research/Lecture/Economic-Freedom-The-Path-to-African-Prosperity
paper by Brett Schaefer.
CREDIT (Centre for Research in Economic Development and
International Trade) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/credit/index.aspx
see their research page with research such as Urbanization, Urban
Concentration and Economic Growth in Developing Countries,
Why Do Rates of
Convergence Differ? A Meta-Regression Analysis. (About
this question: Do poorer countries grow faster than richer ones
and, if so, at what rate is the disparity in income between rich
and poor countries narrowing over time?), Economic Growth and Income
Inequality and Trade Liberalisation and Poverty: The Empirical
Evidence.
Economic Freedom and
Growth:Decomposing the Effects http://swopec.hhs.se/gunwpe/abs/gunwpe0033.htm These papers
are from Scandinavian Working papers in economics
http://swopec.hhs.se/ from Gotenborg University,
see http://swopec.hhs.se/gunwpe/
Site about changes in society
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World Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
This
site
describes
world
values
survey.
"This
series
is
designed
to
enable
a
cross
national
comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and
to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the
globe." The survey included questions about topics such as
economy, politics, work, personal finances, confidence in civil
and governmental institutions, and a lot of other
questions. Here is a report about happiness in the
world http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111725
says
happiness
is
related
to
democracy and wealthier countries.
Democracy,
Economy, and Values: Estimating a Recursive System.
by RJ Franzese, R Inglehart, SD Ehrlich, listed at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html
One
of
the
papers
from
the
World
Value
Survey,
describing
some
research
about
Democracy,
Economy
and Values as a dynamic system. A lot of this paper seems
to be about data, but some results as well. This is
included in my review page. The paper is listed near the
bottom of the page. Also see material from Macroeconomic
Policies of Developed Democracies.
Dr. Ed Diener's site http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~ediener/
look at Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective
Well-Being and Ill-Being (click on "research" and it's listed
there. Also look at his faq page http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~ediener/faq.html
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing: A Summary Review of the
Literature by Pedro Conceição and Romina Bandura,
May 2008 http://www.undp.org/developmentstudies/researchpapers.shtml
The Press Freedom Survey http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
from the freedom house. Annual survey from
1994. Also includes reports on changes in freedoms.
International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS). http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/periodicals/diversities/ A recent issue (Feb 2004) was about Multilingualism on the Internet. Another more recent issue is Democracy and Power-sharing in Multi-National States, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2006.
ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) http://www.cresc.ac.uk/
has
some
papers
such
as
"Social
Movements
and
Social
Change"
and
others.
More
to
come.
The purpose of the centre is to "develop a broad, empirically
focused account of cultural change and its economic, social
and political implications".
FAO has two reports of
interest
SOFA: The State of Food and
Agriculture http://www.fao.org/es/esa/en/pubs_sofa.htm
in 2005 this was "Agricultural trade and poverty: Can trade
work for the poor?"
The state of food insecurity in the world http://www.fao.org/SOF/sofi/index_en.htm in 2005 this was "Eradicating world hunger - Key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals". In 2006, it was "Eradicating world hunger - taking stock ten years after the World Food Summit"
WORLD DATABASE OF
HAPPINESS http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
This
is
"an
ongoing
register
of
scientific
research
on
subjective
appreciation
of
life.
It
brings
together
findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides
a basis for meta-analytical studies." Has a bibliography
by subject of research about happiness. Also links to the
journal Journal of Happiness Studies. In January 2010, I could
see the articles. See the journals page of this
website. For Dr. Veenhoven's research see http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/
click on publications
Happiness the World Over http://www.springerlink.com/content/02881v15644n8734/
article
by
Rita
Simon
and
Andrew Bennett. Not free but says happiness is related to
many material factors of life.
International Crime Victimization Survey http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/
which has some summary tables and reports.
Technology
change
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The Global Course of the
Information Revolution: Recurring Themes and Regional
Variations, Richard O. Hundley, Robert H. Anderson, Tora K.
Bikson, C. Richard Neu, MR-1680-NIC, 2003 (Full Text).
Projects the impact of information technology and the
"information revolution" on areas across the globe for the
next 10 to 15 years. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1680.html
The Information Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa,
Grey Burkhart and Susan Older, MR-1653-NIC, 2003 (Full Text).
Explores the future of the information revolution in the
countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1653.html
Computers and Social Change http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/perrolle/
by Judith Perrolle, social impact of computers, etc.
IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/index.htm
One main interest in this book is Chapter 3: Scenario Driving
Forces, http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/049.htm
because
this
has
tables
on
world
and
regional
change
in
population,
GDP
growth,
energy
use,
and other data, and reviews of growth.
Society at a
glance http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_34637_2671576_1_1_1_1,00.html
"How
are OECD societies progressing? How effective are their actions
in promoting social progress? Society at a Glance provides a
basis for addressing these twin questions. It offers a concise
overview of quantitative social trends and policies across the
OECD. This 2011 edition includes a wide range of information on
social issues – such as demography and family characteristics,
employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and
health care expenditure, and trust and tolerance –as well as a
guide to help readers understand the structure of OECD social
indicators. " Includes data for OECD countries.
NOVA
World in the Balance http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
interviews, demonstrations, essays, etc., on changing world
topics.
USAID has a whole lot of
reports http://www.usaid.gov/index.html
on a while bunch of topics like those
mentioned above. Go to 'our work' or 'locations'. Some
other reports are "Democracy and Governance: A Conceptual
Framework", "Handbook of Democracy and Governance Program
Indicators", and so many more.
Beyond Economic Growth http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/beyond/beyond.htm "This book is designed to help readers broaden their knowledge of global issues, gain insight into their country's situation in the global context, and understand the problems of sustainable development." There are chapters on development, world population growth, economic development, income inequality, poverty, education, health and longevity, urbanization, globalization, foreign aid, and climate change. Also includes data tables.
global
issues http://www.globalissues.org/
brief summaries of bunches of world change
topics, such as poverty, free trade and globalization, human
rights, population, global warming, geopolitics, along with
links. Kind of like our social change site.
International Labor Organization http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm
has free on line books, articles, etc.. Some books
include The new offshoring of jobs and global development by
Gary Gereffi and Civil Society, Participatory Governance and
Decent Work Objectives: The case of South Africa by
Konstantinos Papadakis, among others.
Rand's International topics page http://www.rand.org/topics/international-affairs.html
has such reports as From Insurgency to Stability: Volume II:
Insights from Selected Case Studies (September 7, 2011) and
China and India: The Asian Giants are Heading Down Different
Demographic Paths (August 22, 2011).
Relationship among
health, politics, economy, etc
Structure, (governance) and health: an unsolicited
response. Daniel D Reidpath and Pascale Allotey,
BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2006; 6: 12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1584251/
Governance
was
found
to
be
significantly
correlated
with
population
health,
as were GDP per capita, and access to improved water. They
were also found to be significantly correlated with each
other.
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