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

Рональд Инглхарт, Кристиан Вельцель, Christian Welzel

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...

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