This work argues that economic development, cultural change and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others, and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable.

It provides information from societies representing 70 per cent of the world's population from societies with per capita incomes as low as USD300 per year to those with per capita incomes 100 t

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