TY - BOOK

T1 - Modernization, cultural change, and democracy

T2 - the human development sequence

AU - Inglehart, Ronald

AU - Welzel, Christian Peter

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel 2005.

PY - 2005/1/1

Y1 - 2005/1/1

N2 - 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, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.

AB - 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, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.

KW - Politics

KW - Sozialer Wandel

KW - Gender and Diversity

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/80ade7f6-b3d0-3eab-b0d3-5999c8f4b211/

U2 - 10.1017/CBO9780511790881

DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511790881

M3 - Book

SN - 978-0-521-60971-5

SN - 0521609712

BT - Modernization, cultural change, and democracy

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -