Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy : The Human Development Sequence Paperback / softback
by Ronald (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Inglehart, Christian (International University Bremen) Welzel
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This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour.
These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here.
Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernisation is a process of human development, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.
The authors present a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 28 Tables, unspecified; 57 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780521609715
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 28 Tables, unspecified; 57 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780521609715