Modernization and Postmodernization : : Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies / / Ronald Inglehart.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 95 line illus. 30 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION CHANGING VALUES AND CHANGING SOCIETIES
  • CHAPTER 1 Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics
  • CHAPTER 2 Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change
  • CHAPTER 3 Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies
  • CHAPTER 4 Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values
  • CHAPTER 5 The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994
  • CHAPTER 6 Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In
  • CHAPTER 7 The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth
  • CHAPTER 8 The Rise of New Issues and New Parties
  • CHAPTER 9 The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981 -1990
  • CHAPTER 10 The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics
  • CHAPTER 11 Trajectories of Social Change
  • APPENDIX 1 A Note on Sampling; Figures A. 1 and A.2
  • APPENDIX 2 Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2
  • APPENDIX 3 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)
  • APPENDIX 4 Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book
  • APPENDIX 5 Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX