The recent revolutions known as the A rab S pring have been characterized as the products
of social media. However, there is an alternative view that revolution takes place on the …

Political trust has been declining among the publics of almost all advanced industrial
societies in recent years. This has been attributed to a Materialist–Postmaterialist value shift …

Employee silence, the withholding of work‐related ideas, questions, or concerns from
someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective …

Cultural factors, as measured by the two dimensions of values identified by Inglehart,
explain 75% of the variation in the Perceived Corruption Index across non-communist …

Despite a great variety of theoretical approaches, empirical analyses of social capital are
surprisingly similar. Virtually all of them treat membership in voluntary associations as the …

Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world. While residents in
some nations have embraced gay rights as human rights, people in many other countries …

Various analyses of World Values Survey data find a syndrome of emancipative orientations,
mostly known as “self-expression values,” on the rise throughout all countries with …

Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background,
and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the …

The persistence of adolescents' political attitudes and behaviors into adulthood is a
perennial concern in research on developmental psychology. While some authors claim that …

Nicht erst seit der Transformation der politischen Systeme in Osteuropa wird dem schon in
den 1950er Jahren entwickeltem Ansatz der politischen Kulturforschung wieder größere …