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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence

Inglehart, Ronald, Welzel, Christian·2001·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511790881
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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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Authors
Inglehart, R., & Welzel, C.
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Cambridge University Press eBooks
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Cambridge University Press
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2001-01-01
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10.1017/cbo9780511790881
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