Ronald Inglehart: 7 books

Book cover of Cosmopolitan Communications

Cosmopolitan Communications

Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009

Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart...
Book cover of Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

by Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
Book cover of Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

The Human Development Sequence

by Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented...
Book cover of Cultural Backlash

Cultural Backlash

Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence,...
Book cover of Sacred and Secular

Sacred and Secular

Religion and Politics Worldwide

by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011

This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views...
Book cover of Value Change in Global Perspective
by Ronald F. Inglehart, Paul R. Abramson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009

In this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global...
Book cover of Cultural Evolution

Cultural Evolution

People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World

by Ronald F. Inglehart
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia...
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