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Trying to Measure Globalization - Experiences, critical issues and perspectives (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Trying to Measure Globalization - Experiences, critical issues and perspectives (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 4
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The aim of this book is to conduct a critical survey of the main
tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization
processes. To this end, the first part of the book 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 book 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
books concludes with discussion of the general limitations of
globalization indexes.
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