GRK 136: System Efficiency and System Dynamics in Developing Countries ? The Micro-Foundation of Macro-Processes of Economic, Political and Social Transformation

亚洲和非洲许多国家目前的转型进程正在挑战解释经济和政治变革的标准方法。又提出了应优先促进政治因素还是优先促进经济因素的问题。与此同时，民族国家的未来充满争议和不确定性：文化、宗教和种族认同变得越来越重要。在确定局部系统之间的相互关系和宏观过程的微观基础方面取得了科学进展：经济转型发生的政治和行政框架明确地纳入建模和分析。跨学科的博士课程在微观层面上关注演员、演员群体和中介之间的相互依赖关系。这种方法的目的是查明那些有时支持、有时阻碍动态变化从一个微观分系统转移到另一个微观分系统的条件，以便进一步了解从微观到宏观一级的脉冲传输。

The present transformation processes in a big variety of countries in Asia and Africa are challenging the standard approaches of explaining economic and political change. Again, the question whether priority should be given to either the promotion of political or economic factors is raised. At the same time, the future of the national states is disputed and uncertain: cultural, religious and ethnical identities gain of importance.Scientific progress is been made in identifying the inter-relations between partial systems and in the micro-foundation of macro-processes: the political and the administrative frame in which economic transformation happens is explicitly integrated in modelling and analyses. The interdisciplinary PhD program is following the path in focussing on the interdependencies between actors, actor groups and intermediaries on the micro-level. The aim of that approach is the identification of those conditions which sometimes support, sometimes hinder the transfer of dynamical changes from one micro-subsystem to an other to gain additional insights in the transmission of impulses from the micro- to the macro-level.