Modernization and Postmodernization Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

Name: Modernization and Postmodernization Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies
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ISBN: 9780691011806

ISBN-10: 069101180X

ISBN-13: 9780691011806

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ronald Inglehart

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Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.13" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies



Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics



Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change



Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies



Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values



The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994



Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In



The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth



The Rise of New Issues and New Parties



The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990



The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics



Trajectories of Social Change



A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2



Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2



Supplementary Figures for Chapters 3, 9, and 10; Figures A.3 (Chapter 6), A.4-A.21 (Chapter 9), A.22-A.26 (Chapter 10), and A.27 (Chapter 11)



Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book



Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset


References


Index