1st Edition
Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty
1. Introduction Guido Mehlkop and Peter Graeff 2. Thucydides, Ancient Greece and the Democratic Peace Bruce Russett 3. What Is The Democratic Peace And Why Pursue It? Rudolph J. Rummel 4. Production, Prosperity, Preferences and Peace Erik Gartzke 5. Peace by Interdemocratic Institutions? A Theoretical Framework Brigitte Weiffen 6. Rewards of Freedom: Democracy and the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, 1984– Indra de Soysa and Jo Jakobsen 7. Is the IMF right? How robust is the relationship between market-oriented institutions and policies and economic growth? Jakob de Haan and Jan-Egbert Sturm 8. Economic Freedom, Wealth and Corruption: Analyzing their empirical connection by means of correspondence analysis Jörg Blasius and Peter Graeff 9. Varieties of Capitalism and Social Change in Rich Democracies Volker Bornschier 10. Authority: a social coordination-mechanism A Contribution to the Explanation and Analysis of Social Mechanisms Andrea Maurer 11. Conclusion Peter Graeff and Guido Mehlkop
Biography
Dr. Peter Graeff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research interests include positive and negative social capital, statistics/methodology, conflict and military sociology. Previous publications include Why Nations Arm in Age of Globalization, Comparative Sociology, 2 (4), 2003, (with Guido Mehlkop).
Dr. Guido Mehlkop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His research interests include the institutional and cultural determinants of economic growth and income inequality; the economic theory of conflict and crime, and military sociology.
