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Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales / Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar
Norway 27,3 9,2 296,7
Belgium 46,5 21,9 212,3 219,0
Switzerland 21,9 12,1 181,0
France 79,6 44,0 180,9 348,0
Greece 82,8 50,4 164,3 124,0
UK 27,1 17,0 159,4 116,0
Israel 47,4 39,5 120,0
Slovenia 10,0 14,1 70,9
Source: calculated by Christian Bischof, Tomaz Kastrun, Karl Mueller and the author from
the data of the ESS, available at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
In the following, we try to present some preliminary bi-variety and multivariate
analyses to further underline our point. Graph 6 calibrates the use of the UNDP
Human Development Index for our further comparisons. This is due to the fact
that the OECD country Israel as well as the EFTA/EEA countries Norway and
Switzerland, which are part of the ESS sample, of course are not or are not
sufficiently covered by the Eurostat data, so that we somehow had to estimate
the Israeli, Norwegian and Swiss “Lisbon performance” indirectly. A non-linear
formulation, based on the UNDP HDI, would explain some 2/3 of the variance of
our Lisbon index, so that the use of the UNDP Human Development Index as a
Lisbon process proxy is justified – at least for the moment being.
Graph 6: The UNDP HDI, a combined Lisbon development index, social
cohesion and center politics in Europe
Lisbon Index
0,8
0,7
0,6
0,5
0,4
0,3
y = 11,778x 2 - 18,795x + 7,8455
R 2 = 0,6663
UNDP HDI and Lisbon Index
0,2
0,75 0,85 0,95
UNDP HDI
Based on A. Tausch (2006) ‘On heroes, villains and statisticians’. The Vienna Institute
Monthly Report, No. 7, July 2006: 20 - 23. Vienna: The Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw) and UNDP HDR 2005
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