"This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regime performance constitute a coherent syndrome of social change - a syndrome whose common focus has not properly been specified by standard modernization theory. The authors specify this syndrome as human development, arguing that its three components have a common focus on individual choice. Socioeconomic development broadens individual choice by giving people more resources; cultural modernization gives rise to aspirations that lead people to seek for individual choice; and democracy extends individual choice by codifying legal opportunities. Analysis of data from 80 societies demonstrates: 1. that a universal resource-aspiration-opportunity...
We studied the specifics of post-industrial strategies of social development and transformation of s...
Society evolves according to the energy and mindset of individuals. The more individuals are open to...
Democratization and human development (HD) are inherently controversial processes, which are viewed ...
'This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regi...
This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regim...
This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural change and democratization consti...
This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regim...
This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, emancipative cultural change and democrati...
"This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regi...
"Recently scholars identified a global 'explosion' of democracy as a sharply distinctive period with...
'This paper presents a theoretical model designed to analyze the factors that have made societies ar...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.A revised theory of modernization -- Valu...
Society today is in transition. We can see it. We live in it. Actually, the mankind’s history is a t...
This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record.Purpose...
Basic cultural orientations such as Individualism and Collectivism are not static attributes of give...
We studied the specifics of post-industrial strategies of social development and transformation of s...
Society evolves according to the energy and mindset of individuals. The more individuals are open to...
Democratization and human development (HD) are inherently controversial processes, which are viewed ...
'This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regi...
This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regim...
This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural change and democratization consti...
This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regim...
This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, emancipative cultural change and democrati...
"This paper demonstrates that socioeconomic development, cultural modernization, and democratic regi...
"Recently scholars identified a global 'explosion' of democracy as a sharply distinctive period with...
'This paper presents a theoretical model designed to analyze the factors that have made societies ar...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.A revised theory of modernization -- Valu...
Society today is in transition. We can see it. We live in it. Actually, the mankind’s history is a t...
This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record.Purpose...
Basic cultural orientations such as Individualism and Collectivism are not static attributes of give...
We studied the specifics of post-industrial strategies of social development and transformation of s...
Society evolves according to the energy and mindset of individuals. The more individuals are open to...
Democratization and human development (HD) are inherently controversial processes, which are viewed ...