Arno Tausch

His habilitation thesis focused on multiple regression models of global development, based on data from the World Bank and Volker Bornschier as well as the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III, and tests the relevance of socio-liberal approaches to world development, already inherent in the writings of classical social democratic development theories in Europe in the 1930s with multiple regression and canonical correlation models. This approach was continued and expanded in Socio-Liberal Theory of World Development (1993).

Arno Tausch (born February 11, 1951 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian political scientist. His research program is focused on world systems theory, development studies and dependency theory, European studies in the framework of core-periphery relationships, and quantitative Peace and conflict studies.

Tausch received his Ph.D. in political science from Salzburg University in 1976. His habilitation at the Department of Political Science at Innsbruck University was concluded in 1988; the Chairperson of his habilitation commission was Professor Anton Pelinka. Since then he has been adjunct professor (‘Universitätsdozent’) at that department. He was also an associate visiting professor of Economics at Corvinus University Budapest.

Later work dealt with Russia and the global Kondratieff cycle; the effects of the arms trade on social development, especially for the countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Militarism will grow in these countries because of the distribution coalition prone environment of "periphery socialism". In the 1990s, Tausch analyzed migration processes and the transformation of post-communist countries.

As of January 2019, Tausch had authored or co-authored according to his CV on Academia.edu, 19 books in English, 2 in French, and 8 in German, and a number of articles in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish and German in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and articles on current affairs.

Generally, social science literature mentions Tausch’s work mainly in the context of debates on Global Keynesianism; the Socio-liberal Theory of World Development; Kondratieff waves; the measurement of child poverty; Dependency theory and world system approaches to international relations; the World Values Survey; Antisemitism; Islamic studies and European Union studies and European Social Policy.

In recent years, Tausch’s studies were debated in the fields of Bibliometry and Scientometry; China studies; environmental studies and studies on unequal exchange; European Union studies; research on globalization and the international political economy; Kondratieff cycles; the measurement of poverty and well-being; Middle East studies and studies about Muslims in Western countries globalization studies; in studies on Terrorism; and in World Values Survey oriented research

The John Wiley International Social Science Journal in its Special Issue: 70 years of International Social Science Journal, reprinted Tausch’s 2010 contribution to the journal “Globalisation and development: the relevance of classical “dependency” theory for the world today” with a comment by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World‐Systems at the University of California, Riverside.