Ronald Inglehart (Ann Arbor University of Michigan), Christian Welzel (International University Bremen)

Gebundenes Buch

Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

The Human Development Sequence

Beschreibung

What people want out of life is changing - their political goals, religious values, sexual norms, and economic motivations are being changed in roughly predictable ways. This book presents evidence of these changes from eighty nations, and explains the forces that are driving them.

Autor

Ronald Inglehart is a professor of political science and program director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and directs the World Values Surveys. His most recent books are Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton University Press, 1997), (with Pippa Norris) Rising Tide: Gender Equality in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and (with Pippa Norris) Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Author of almost 200 publications, he has been a visiting professor or scholar in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and Nigeria and has served as a consultant to the US State Department and the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780521846950
• ISBN-10: 0521846951
• Artikelnr.: 22084101