MODERNIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND DEMOCRACY by Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel ( 9780511790881 )

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Title:

MODERNIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND DEMOCRACY
THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SEQUENCE

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Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0511790880

ISBN 13:

9780511790881

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 September, 2012

Description:

This book presents a revised version of modernisation theory.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

57 b/w illus. 28 tables

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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