Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy
The Human Development Sequence
Published on 8. August 2005
978-1-107-38610-5 (ISBN)
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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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Ronald Inglehart | Christian Welzel
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy
The Human Development Sequence
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08/2005
Cambridge University Press
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