Multidimensional Similarities at a Global Scale: An Approach to Mapping Open Society Orientations

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• 作者：Massimo Buscema ; Pier Luigi Sacco ; Guido Ferilli
• 关键词：Human Development Index ; Global Competitiveness Index ; Economic Freedom Index ; Press Freedom Index ; Corruption Perception Index ; Self ; organizing map ; Clusters ; Open society orientation
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：128
• 期：3
• 页码：1239-1258
• 全文大小：2,883 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Sociology
  Quality of Life Research
  Microeconomics
  Public Health
  Human Geography
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921
• 卷排序：128

文摘

This paper analyzes the global geography of open society orientations in the sense of Karl Popper’s notion of open society, by means of a database consisting of five common, public and widely used indicators such as UNDP’s Human Development Index, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index, Reporters Sans Frontières’ Press Freedom Index, and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. We carry out a cluster analysis based on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technique, and find that the geography of open society orientation organizes globally into four main clusters with distinctive socio-economic characteristics. We discuss the implications of the clusterization and find that it provides interesting insight also as to the post-2008 response of countries to the global financial crisis.