A Multiple-Network Analysis of the World System of
                    Nations, 1995–1999

Kick, Edward L.; McKinney, Laura A.; McDonald, Steve; Jorgenson, Andrew K.

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“…To test the effects of the global hierarchy of nations and division of labor therein, we include an indicator of world-system position calculated by Kick, McKinney, McDonald, and Jorgenson (2011) for the years 1995-1999. The measure is derived from a structural blockmodeling analysis of nation-to-nation ties across four dimensions: the economy (trading partners), culture (embassy co-sponsors), politics (co-membership in IGOs), and the military (armaments trade).…”

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Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

McKinney

Fulkerson

2015

Soc Just Res

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The purpose of this paper is to gain empirical footing on the mechanisms that drive and mitigate global warming, which is a topic of growing significance to themes of social justice. Using components of the ecological footprint, we construct a measure of each nation's relative contributions to carbon dioxide emissions after accounting for the amount sequestered by domestic forestlands. We refer to this measure as the ''climate footprint,'' and construct a structural equation model to test key theorizations in the environmental sociology literature. We add to this body of work by incorporating and empirically testing ecofeminist positions that the status of women is a cause and an effect of environmental conditions. Results suggest women and the environment are interconnected dimensions of exploitation, as ecological losses weaken women's status in nations. We also find that nations with greater female representation in governing bodies have lower climate footprints, controlling for domestic (urbanization, production) and global (world-system integration) drivers. Conclusions point to the potential for gender equality and improving the status of women worldwide to curtail climate change. Other theoretical and empirical implications are treated, including the benefits of bringing women into theories of the environment and the utility of structural equation techniques for testing hypotheses that specify direct and indirect connections among relevant predictors and the outcome.

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Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

McKinney

Fulkerson

2015

Soc Just Res

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“…V předložené stati jsem se pokusil nastínit možnosti, ale i omezení metod identifikace ekvivalentních tříd a demonstrovat základy jejich aplikace. Z dalších empiricky zdařilých aplikací, které mohou sloužit jako exemplární ukázky poziční analýzy, lze uvést historicky laděné studie Padgetta a Ansella [1993] o florentském rodu Medicejských, biomedicínský výzkum Breigera [1976], zkoumání soudobého světosystému [Kick et al 2011], protestních hnutí od Bearmana a Everetta [1993] nebo instruktivní článek o hudebních festivalech ve Velké Británii Crossleyho a Emmsové [2016]. Tyto a mnohé další práce dokládají, že blokové modelování a potažmo SNA jako celek mají v sociálních vědách své místo a účel.…”

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Equivalence and blockmodeling in the analysis of social networks

Diviák¹

2017

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“…The structure of the hierarchical global power system reflects power differences among countries. This is the underlying idea behind the network studies of the worldsystem (Clark, 2010;Clark and Beckfield, 2009;Clark and Mahutga, 2013;Kick and Davis, 2001;Kick, McKinney, McDonald, and Jorgenson, 2011;Lloyd et al, 2009;Mahutga, 2006;Mahutga and Smith, 2011;Nemeth and Smith, 1985;Smith and White, 1992;Snyder and Kick, 1979;Van Rossem, 1996) that assume that more prominent countries are at an advantage compared to those that are less prominent or in the periphery.Network studies conceptualize the world-system in a way that is quite unique and that differs from world-system analysis in some respects (e.g., Clark 2008;Clark and Beckfield 2009;Lloyd et al 2009). Where world-systems analysis focuses on the type of production process in defining countries' position in the IDL and the world-system, SNA defines power and dependency by the patterns of power/dependency relations between countries, thus by partner dependency (Clark 2008;.…”

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The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

Jacobs

Rossem

2016

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This article critically assesses the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the 'rising powers' and 'globalization.' Our main contention is that current analyses of countries' degree of global power (especially for the BRICS) has been dominated by the control over resources approach that, although it gauges power potential, it insufficiently accounts for how this potential is converted into actual global might. By drawing on a unique and extensive dataset comprised of a wide array of political, economic, and military networks for a vast number of countries between 1965 and 2005, we aim to 1) reassess alleged changes in the structure of the world-system since 1965 and 2) analyze whether or not these changes can be attributed to globalization. We pay attention to the trajectories of the BRICS and to the possibly divergent structural evolutions of the political and economic dimensions that constitute the system. Our results show that despite a certain degree of power convergence between countries at the sub-top of the system, divergence continues to take place between the most and least powerful, and stratification is reproduced. Globalization is further shown to exacerbate this trend, though its effect differs on the political and economic dimensions of the system. Though the traditional 'core powers' might have to share their power with newcomer China in the future, this hardly heralds a new age in which the global system of power relations are converging to the extent that stratification is being undermined. KeywordsRecent developments have created the impression that the global power structure is shifting; new countries appear to be rising to prominence in the global system, while the traditional powers are stagnating or even declining. The economic and social transformations in the traditionally dominant Western powers, combined with the rise of the BRICS countries, including the spectacular rise of China, suggest that the era in which Western nations dominated the global system may be coming to an end, and that in the near future these countries may have to share power with these new rising powers (e.g., Cooper and Flemes, 2013;Layne, 2009). Globalization is often identified as the primary cause of this alleged structural change (Friedman, 2005;Zakaria, 2008).Globalization is employed here to denote a transformative process in which countries become more integrated and interdependent in the economic as well as political, social, and cultural subsystems. This process is said to cause countries to increasingly lose autonomy, to become more affected by domestic affairs in other countries, and to be more dependent on their relations with other countries. Scholarly communities and popular opinion contend that global power relations have changed irrevocably under influence of the globalization process and the subsequent rise of a number of non-traditional powers (e.g., Cooper and Flemes, 2013;Friedman, 2005;Zakaria, 2008). Other authorss, by contrast, ma...

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A Multiple-Network Analysis of the World System of Nations, 1995–1999

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Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

Equivalence and blockmodeling in the analysis of social networks

The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

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