For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes: contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theoriesThis book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes:

contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke

topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization

contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theories

This book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes:

contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke

topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization

contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theories

This book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes: contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theoriesThis book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

Sind kriminelle Handlungen wie Versicherungsbetrug, Unfallflucht, Schwarzfahren, Ladendiebstahl und Steuerbetrug rationale Wahlhandlungen oder werden Menschen bei ihren Handlungen eher von internalisierten Normvorstellungen geleitet? Mithilfe multivariater Regressionsanalysen auf der Basis einer schriftlichen Befragung von 2200 zufällig ausgewählten BürgerInnen in Dresden gibt Guido Mehlkop einen neuen, tieferen und empirisch abgesicherten Einblick in die Prozesse der Entscheidung für oder gegen kriminelle Handlungen. Wenngleich kriminelle Handlungen auch prinzipiell als rationale Wahl zu sehen sind, so zeigt der Autor die Bedeutung sozialer Normen auf, die vor allem als soziale Symbole dienen;sie reduzieren Komplexität und bilden gleichsam einen Rahmen innerhalb dessen Handlungen selektiert werden. Eine reine Kosten-Nutzen-Abwägung findet nur bei denjenigen Personen statt, die Normen nicht vollständig internalisiert haben oder Normbruch neutralisieren können.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes: contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theoriesThis book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes:

contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke

topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization

contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theories

This book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes:

contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke

topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization

contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theories

This book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, this book attempts to find scientific answers to explain the relationship between conflict and poverty.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a range of arguments that synthesize both democratic and capitalist peace theory. Supported by a large body of research, contributors contend that nations with institutions that maximize individual political and civil rights minimize the probability of fighting each other. The volume includes: contributors from leading and award winning scholars in the field, including Bruce Russett and Erik Gartzke topics such as democratization and economic development, situated within the broader contexts of globalization and modernization contributions supported by empirical analyses, systematizing democratic and capitalist peace theoriesThis book will be vital reading for students and scholars of International Relations and globalization, and also for a broader range of subjects including sociology, political science and economics.

Sind kriminelle Handlungen wie Versicherungsbetrug, Unfallflucht, Schwarzfahren, Ladendiebstahl und Steuerbetrug rationale Wahlhandlungen oder werden Menschen bei ihren Handlungen eher von internalisierten Normvorstellungen geleitet? Mithilfe multivariater Regressionsanalysen auf der Basis einer schriftlichen Befragung von 2200 zufällig ausgewählten BürgerInnen in Dresden gibt Guido Mehlkop einen neuen, tieferen und empirisch abgesicherten Einblick in die Prozesse der Entscheidung für oder gegen kriminelle Handlungen. Wenngleich kriminelle Handlungen auch prinzipiell als rationale Wahl zu sehen sind, so zeigt der Autor die Bedeutung sozialer Normen auf, die vor allem als soziale Symbole dienen;sie reduzieren Komplexität und bilden gleichsam einen Rahmen innerhalb dessen Handlungen selektiert werden. Eine reine Kosten-Nutzen-Abwägung findet nur bei denjenigen Personen statt, die Normen nicht vollständig internalisiert haben oder Normbruch neutralisieren können.