This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their
functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age …

The primary basis of contemporary forest planning research, which assumes the forest
owner to maximize his or her expected utility, has left aside cognitive and social patterns of …

To what extent does a common value system exist among the publics of Islamic societies?
And to what extent are their values compatible with democratic institutions? As this chapter …

We started our cooperation more than ten years ago. This was when Pia Karlsson started to
work with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, where Amir Mansory had been employed …

The causes of the lowest-low fertility that currently characterizes the Republic of Korea are
investigated. Sweeping structural reform measures in conjunction with the effects of the …

This paper investigates how broad processes of modernization affect individuals' relations to
the civil sphere. It first introduces a model of civic involvement as a system of expectations …

Multiple literatures suggest that the following factors may figure prominently in explanations
of women's increasing empowerment:(1) socioeconomic development;(2) rising …

This article analyses the role of cultural shift, as defined by Inglehart, in the major change in
Israeli foreign policy embodied in the Oslo Accords. Aside from providing an empirical …

This paper critically examines Inglehart's argument that there is a predictable shift from
materialist to post-materialist values, using the British case as our focus. Using the 1981 …

Are you being served? his inquiry always greets the well-heeled customers in the fictional
department store in the classic British television comedy series. But it is rarely asked of the …