Amartya Sen's writings have articulated the importance of human agency, and identified the
need for information on agency freedom to inform our evaluation of social arrangements …

В настоящей книге представлена пересмотренная версия теории модернизации,
интегрирующая социально-экономическое развитие, изменения в сфере культуры и …

This analysis of variations in the level of generalized social trust (defined here as the belief
that others will not deliberately or knowingly do us harm, if they can avoid it, and will look …

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 …

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 …

An influential analysis by Przeworski and Limongi argued that a pro-democratic culture may
help existing democracies survive, but political culture does not contribute to the process of …

With many developing countries stuck in an uneasy middle ground between full‐fledged
democracy and outright dictatorship, the question of favourable and unfavourable conditions …

Political trust legitimates a regime. For new democracies, a high level of political trust will
facilitate the consolidation process while a low level will likely contribute to, if not directly …

This article examines democratization as an aspect of human development where: human
development is meant to proceed as people attain greater autonomous choice in shaping …