В своей книге Рональд Инглхарт проверяет разработанную им эволюционную теорию
модернизации на базе данных, созданной с 1981 г. в рамках проектов Всемирное …

The growing appeal of right-wing politics around the world, in particu-lar with Donald
Trump's election, Brexit, and France's National Front successes, has confounded both …

The window of opportunity for mitigating climate change is narrow. Limiting global warming
to 1.5° C will require rapid and deep alteration of attitudes, norms, incentives, and politics …

Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only
occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how …

In recent years, the concept of multiple modernities has emerged to challenge the perceived
Eurocentrism and unilinearity of traditional theories of convergence, and has led to renewed …

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the
world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to …

Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the
Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of …

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

A revised version of modernization theory implies that certain cultural variables (deeply-
instilled attitudes among the public of a society) play an important role in democratization …