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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. The Forces Shaping Value Change: 1. A revised theory of modernization 2. Value change and the persistence of cultural traditions 3. Exploring the unknown: predicting mass responses 4. Intergenerational value change 5. Value changes over time 6. Individualism, self-expression, and civic virtues Part II. Consequences of Value Change: 7. The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions: theoretical discussion 8. The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions: empirical analyses 9. Social forces, collective action, and international events 10. Individual level values and system level democracy: the problem of cross-level analysis 11. Elements of a pro-democratic civic culture 12. Gender equality, emancipative values, and democracy 13. The Implications of human development Conclusion: an emancipative theory of democracy.
Part I. The Forces Shaping Value Change: 1. A revised theory of modernization 2. Value change and the persistence of cultural traditions 3. Exploring the unknown: predicting mass responses 4. Intergenerational value change 5. Value changes over time 6. Individualism, self-expression, and civic virtues Part II. Consequences of Value Change: 7. The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions: theoretical discussion 8. The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions: empirical analyses 9. Social forces, collective action, and international events 10. Individual level values and system level democracy: the problem of cross-level analysis 11. Elements of a pro-democratic civic culture 12. Gender equality, emancipative values, and democracy 13. The Implications of human development Conclusion: an emancipative theory of democracy.
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