Trying to Measure Globalization (Record no. 104574)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400728073
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-2807-3
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Classification number JC11-607
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Subject category code JPA
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Subject category code POL010000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.01
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Caselli, Marco.
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Title Trying to Measure Globalization
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Experiences, critical issues and perspectives /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Marco Caselli.
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-- Dordrecht :
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-- 2012.
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Extent IX, 139p.
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Series statement SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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Formatted contents note Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Globalization: in search of definition of a controversial concept -- 2. Measuring complexity -- 3. Measuring globalization: the state-based approach -- 4. Globalization indices based on states: a comparism and some criticism -- 5. Alternative approaches and conclusions.
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Summary, etc This Briefs conducts a critical survey of the main tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization processes. To this end, the first part of the Briefs 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 Briefs 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 measure in relation to states a process which has as one of its principal features the fact that it extends beyond the confines of states. For this reason, the final chapter considers whether globalization can be measured with different units of analysis – in particular people and cities. The Briefs concludes with discussion of the general limitations of globalization indexes.  
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political Theory.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political Science, general.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9789400728066
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Uniform title SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2807-3
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