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The theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysis

dc.contributor.authorWelzel, Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorInglehart, Ronald F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKligemann, Hans-Dieteren_US
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dc.date.issued2003-05en_US
dc.identifier.citationWELZEL, CHRISTIAN; INGLEHART, RONALD; KLIGEMANN, HANS-DIETER (2003). "The theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysis." European Journal of Political Research 42(3): 341-379. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74505>en_US
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dc.identifier.issn1475-6765en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74505
dc.description.abstractThis article demonstrates that socioeconomic development, emancipative cultural change and democratization constitute a coherent syndrome of social progress – a syndrome whose common focus has not been properly specified by classical modernization theory. We specify this syndrome as ‘human development’, arguing that its three components have a common focus on broadening human choice. Socioeconomic development gives people the objective means of choice by increasing individual resources ; rising emancipative values strengthen people's subjective orientation towards choice; and democratization provides legal guarantees of choice by institutionalizing freedom rights . Analysis of data from the World Values Surveys demonstrates that the linkage between individual resources, emancipative values and freedom rights is universal in its presence across nations, regions and cultural zones; that this human development syndrome is shaped by a causal effect of individual resources and emancipative values on freedom rights; and that this effect operates through its impact on elite integrity , as the factor which makes freedom rights effective.en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.rightsEuropean Consortium for Political Research 2003en_US
dc.titleThe theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherSocial Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germanyen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74505/1/1475-6765.00086.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1475-6765.00086en_US
dc.identifier.sourceEuropean Journal of Political Researchen_US
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