Professorship for Research of Political Culture

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

Die Professur für Politische Kulturforschung beschäftigt sich mit Modernisierung, sozialer Wandel, und Human Empowerment; Demokratisierung, Demokratiemessung und Qualität von Governance; Werteformation, kultureller Wandel und öffentliche Meinung; Protestbeteiligung und soziale Bewegungen sowie Zivilgesellschaft und Sozialkapital.

Main research areas

  • Modernisation, Social Change, and Human Empowerment
  • Democratization, Democratization Rating and Quality of Governance
  • Value Formation, Cultural Change and Public Opinion
  • Protest Involvement and Social Transactions
  • Civil Society and Social Capital
  1. Published

    Elements of Schwartz’s Model in the WVS: How Do They Relate to Other Cultural Models?

    Kaasa, A. & Welzel, C., 12.2023, In: Cross-Cultural Research. 57, 5, p. 431-471 41 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

    Minkov, M., Kaasa, A. & Welzel, C., 01.10.2021, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 52, 8-9, p. 801-821 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Dimensions and Dynamics of National Culture: Synthesizing Hofstede With Inglehart

    Beugelsdijk, S. & Welzel, C., 01.11.2018, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 49, 10, p. 1469-1505 37 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Democratization

    Haerpfer, C. W., Bernhagen, P., Welzel, C. P. & Inglehart, R., 12.2018, 2 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 520 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Democratization

    Welzel, C. P. (Editor), Bernhagen, P. (Editor), Haerpfer, C. W. (Editor) & Inglehart, R. (Editor), 2019, 2 ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 520 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Democratic Horizons: what value change reveals about the future of democracy

    Welzel, C., 04.07.2021, In: Democratization. 28, 5, p. 992-1016 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Democracy Misunderstood: Authoritarian Notions of Democracy around the Globe

    Kirsch, H. & Welzel, C. P., 01.09.2019, In: Social Forces. 98, 1, p. 59-92 34 p., soy114.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Democracy Confused: When People Mistake the Absence of Democracy for Its Presence

    Kruse, S., Ravlik, M. & Welzel, C., 01.04.2019, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 50, 3, p. 315-335 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Declining willingness to fight for one’s country: The Individual-level Basis of the Long Peace

    Inglehart, R., Puranen, B. & Welzel, C. P., 16.07.2015, In: Journal of Peace Research. 52, 4, p. 418-434 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Cultural Evolution Shifts the Source of Happiness from Religion to Subjective Freedom

    Minkov, M., Welzel, C. & Schachner, M., 01.12.2020, In: Journal of Happiness Studies. 21, 8, p. 2873-2888 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review