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This book traces changes in the social and political orientations
of the publics of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, West Germany,
Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece and
Luxembourg from 1970 to 1988. It charts the persistence of
distinctive national outlooks in many domains, alongside the
emergence of a European consensus within the framework of an
increasingly integrated European Community. Written by leading
social scientists from Western Europe and the United States, this
book helps chart the future for Europe after 1992.
This book traces changes in the social and political orientations
of the publics of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, West Germany,
Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece and
Luxembourg from 1970 to 1988. It charts the persistence of
distinctive national outlooks in many domains, alongside the
emergence of a European consensus within the framework of an
increasingly integrated European Community. Written by leading
social scientists from Western Europe and the United States, this
book helps chart the future for Europe after 1992.
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.
Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been
transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in
profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This
ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives
for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in
the importance people attach to having children and families, and
in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald
Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977),
broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in
the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies.
This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a
much broader process of cultural change that is gradually
transforming political, economic, and social life in these
societies.
Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from
twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the
cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations
gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes
have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be
transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of
economic development that is pursued.
This book contends that beneath the frenzied activism of the
sixties and the seeming quiescence of the seventies, a "silent
revolution" has been occurring that is gradually but fundamentally
changing political life throughout the Western world. Ronald
Inglehart focuses on two aspects of this revolution: a shift from
an overwhelming emphasis on material values and physical security
toward greater concern with the quality of life; and an increase in
the political skills of Western publics that enables them to play a
greater role in making important political decisions. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
This book contends that beneath the frenzied activism of the
sixties and the seeming quiescence of the seventies, a "silent
revolution" has been occurring that is gradually but fundamentally
changing political life throughout the Western world. Ronald
Inglehart focuses on two aspects of this revolution: a shift from
an overwhelming emphasis on material values and physical security
toward greater concern with the quality of life; and an increase in
the political skills of Western publics that enables them to play a
greater role in making important political decisions. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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. The authors
present a model of social change that predicts how the value
systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of
democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent
cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.
Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and
entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the
Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still
shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in
catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a
general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a
backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and
leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers
of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to
liberal democracy.
In this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show
that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire
for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values
(such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality
of life) is in all likelihood a global phenomenon. Value Change in
Global Perspective analyzes over thirty years worth of national
surveys in European countries and presents the most comprehensive
and nuanced discussion of this shift to date. By paying special
attention to the way generational replacement transforms values
among mass publics, the authors are able to present a comprehensive
analysis of the processes through which values change. In addition,
Value Change in Global Perspective analyzes the 1990-91 World
Values Survey, conducted in forty societies representing over
seventy percent of the world's population. These surveys cover an
unprecedentedly broad range of the economic and political spectrum,
with data from low-income countries (such as China, India, Mexico,
and Nigeria), newly industrialized countries (such as South Korea)
and former state-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. This data adds significant new meaning to our
understanding of attitude shifts throughout the world. Value Change
in Global Perspective has been written to meet the needs of
scholars and students alike. The use of percentage, percentage
differences, and algebraic standardization procedures will make the
results easy to understand and useful in courses in comparative
politics and in public opinion. Paul R. Abramson is Professor of
Political Science, Michigan State University. RonaldInglehart is
Professor of Political Science and Program Director, Institute for
Social Research, University of Michigan.
This book develops a theory of existential security. It
demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial
societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during
the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has
more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This
second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated
evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries.
This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among
vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed
states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices,
values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in
rich nations.
This book develops a theory of existential security. It
demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial
societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during
the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has
more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This
second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated
evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries.
This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among
vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed
states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices,
values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in
rich nations.
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information
from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even
national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of
cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century,
conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have
commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this
process. A series of fire-walls protect national cultures. This
book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding
cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions
under which global communications are most likely to endanger
cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from
both the societal level and the individual level, examining the
outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The
study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90
societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The
conclusion considers the implications of their findings for
cultural policies.
The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. This study reveals how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and analyzes the political consequences. It systematically compares attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations, ranging from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. This volume is essential reading to gain a better understanding of issues in comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, development and sociology.
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information
from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even
national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of
cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century,
conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have
commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this
process. A series of fire-walls protect national cultures. This
book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding
cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions
under which global communications are most likely to endanger
cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from
both the societal level and the individual level, examining the
outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The
study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90
societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The
conclusion considers the implications of their findings for
cultural policies.
The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. This study reveals how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and analyzes the political consequences. It systematically compares attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations, ranging from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. This volume is essential reading to gain a better understanding of issues in comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, development and sociology.
Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and
entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the
Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still
shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in
catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a
general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a
backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and
leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers
of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to
liberal democracy.
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. The authors
present a model of social change that predicts how the value
systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of
democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent
cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information
from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even
national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of
cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century,
conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have
commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this
process. A series of fire-walls protect national cultures. This
book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding
cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions
under which global communications are most likely to endanger
cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from
both the societal level and the individual level, examining the
outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The
study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90
societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The
conclusion considers the implications of their findings for
cultural policies.
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