Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies - Rilegato

Inglehart, Ronald

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ISBN 10: 0691011818 ISBN 13: 9780691011813

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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 certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic political institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on a unique database, the World Values Surveys. This database covers a broader range than ever before available for looking at the impact of mass publics on political and social life. It provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population--from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economies to authoritarian states.

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"[This is] Inglehart's most convincing demonstration of the theory of intergenerational value change, the cornerstone of his scholarship. . . . With data from 43 societies collected over nearly three decades, and representing 70 percent of the world's population . . .the analysis of Inglehart's unprecedented comparative dataset is nuanced, sophisticated, and certain to stimulate the kind of criticism that will deepen our understanding of social change."--The Review of Politics

"Ronald Inglehart is one of the very few scholars to have remained consistently engaged with both the study of political culture and the
development of modernization theory over the past few decades. In Modernization and Postmodernization, he presents the cumulative results of decades of research on the interrelationships among cultural values, democracy, and capitalism. His findings are consistently thought-provoking and often surprising and should inspire prolonged and productive controversy. . . . Overall, Inglehart's fascinating book raises tantalizing questions about the long-term trajectory of value change in modern society."--Stephen E. Hanson, Comparative Politics

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies	3
Ch. 1	Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics	7
Ch. 2	Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change	51
Ch. 3	Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies	67
Ch. 4	Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values	108
Ch. 5	The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994	131
Ch. 6	Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In	160
Ch. 7	The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth	216
Ch. 8	The Rise of New Issues and New Parties	237
Ch. 9	The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990	267
Ch. 10	The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics	293
Ch. 11	Trajectories of Social Change	324
App. 1	A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2	343
App. 2	Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2	351
App. 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)	357
App. 4	Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book	389
App. 5	Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset	393
	References	431
	Index	445

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691011818
• ISBN 13: 9780691011813
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 453