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。再次提出了是否应优先考虑促进政治或经济因素的问题。与此同时，民族国家的未来是有争议和不确定的：文化、宗教和种族认同变得越来越重要。在确定部分制度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：发生经济转型的政治和行政框架明确地整合在建模和分析中。跨学科博士项目正在遵循这条道路，专注于微观层面上行为者、行为者群体和中间人之间的相互依存关系。这种方法的目的是查明有时支持、有时阻碍将动态变化从一个微观子系统转移到另一个微观子系统的条件，以便在从微观到宏观一级的冲动传递中获得更多的见解。

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.