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

by Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzen

Book Overview

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85% of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernization is a process of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521609712
• ISBN13: 9780521609715
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"