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

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

by Ronald Inglehart
ISBN-10:
069101180X
ISBN-13:
9780691011806
Pub. Date:
05/25/1997
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10:
069101180X
ISBN-13:
9780691011806
Pub. Date:
05/25/1997
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

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

by Ronald Inglehart
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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691011806
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 05/25/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ronald Inglehart is Professor of Political Science and Program Director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Among his books are The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics and Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society, both published by Princeton University Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies3
Ch. 1Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics7
Ch. 2Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change51
Ch. 3Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies67
Ch. 4Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values108
Ch. 5The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994131
Ch. 6Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In160
Ch. 7The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth216
Ch. 8The Rise of New Issues and New Parties237
Ch. 9The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990267
Ch. 10The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics293
Ch. 11Trajectories of Social Change324
App. 1A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2343
App. 2Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2351
App. 3Supplementary 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. 4Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book389
App. 5Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset393
References431
Index445

What People are Saying About This

Herbert Kitschelt

Inglehart's new book analyzes the most encompassing dataset on political values and orientations ever collected, in order to assess cultural theories of political and economic change. His well-understood (and subtly reinterpreted) version of modernization theory will draw throngs of critics, as did Inglehart's previous works. But he provides clinching evidence for a logic of cultural development that even his toughest critics can not ignore.
Herbert Kitschelt, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

From the Publisher

"This latest book by Ronald Inglehart represents another path-breaking advance in his three-decade-long exploration of cultural change in contemporary societies. Few scholars are as adept as Inglehart in weaving together a broad vision of historical change and a fine-grained analysis of survey results into a coherent account of how the world is changing around us."—Robert D. Putnam, author of Making Democracy Work

"Inglehart's new book analyzes the most encompassing dataset on political values and orientations ever collected, in order to assess cultural theories of political and economic change. His well-understood (and subtly reinterpreted) version of modernization theory will draw throngs of critics, as did Inglehart's previous works. But he provides clinching evidence for a logic of cultural development that even his toughest critics can not ignore."—Herbert Kitschelt, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

Putnam

This latest book by Ronald Inglehart represents another path-breaking advance in his three-decade-long exploration of cultural change in contemporary societies. Few scholars are as adept as Inglehart in weaving together a broad vision of historical change and a fine-grained analysis of survey results into a coherent account of how the world is changing around us.
Robert D. Putnam, author of "Making Democracy Work"

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