Modernization and postmodernization : cultural, economic, and political change in 43 societies / Ronald Inglehart.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-444) and index.

Introduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies -- Ch. 1. Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics -- Ch. 2. Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change -- Ch. 3. Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies -- Ch. 4. Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values -- Ch. 5. The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994 -- Ch. 6. Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In -- Ch. 7. The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth -- Ch. 8. The Rise of New Issues and New Parties -- Ch. 9. The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990 -- Ch. 10. The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics -- Ch. 11. Trajectories of Social Change -- App. 1. A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2 -- App. 2. Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2 --

App. 3. Supplementary Figures for Chapters 3, 9, and 10; Figures A.3 (Chapter 6), A.4-A.21 (Chapter 9), A.22-A.26 (Chapter 10), and A.27 (Chapter 11) -- App. 4. Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book -- App. 5. Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset.

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable.