Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy : The Human Development Sequence, Paperback / softback Book

Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy : The Human Development Sequence Paperback / softback

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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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