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. 1
Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics

Ch. 2
Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change

Ch. 3
Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies

Ch. 4
Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values

Ch. 5
The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994

Ch. 6
Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In

Ch. 7
The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth

Ch. 8
The Rise of New Issues and New Parties

Ch. 9
The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990

Ch. 10
The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics

Ch. 11
Trajectories of Social Change

App. 1
A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2

App. 2
Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2

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)

App. 4
Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book

App. 5
Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset


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Index