Modernization and Postmodernization

Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

By: Ronald Inglehart

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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.
But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society embraces yet another set of values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic politic 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 the World Values Surveys, a unique database that looks 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 income as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economics 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

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