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The Renaissance of Political Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Ronald Inglehart
Ronald Inglehart*
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University of Michigan
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Abstract

The publics of different societies are characterized by durable cultural orientations that have major political and economic consequences. Throughout the period from 1973 to 1987, given nationalities consistently showed relative high or low levels of a “civic culture”—a coherent syndrome of personal life satisfaction, political satisfaction, interpersonal trust and support for the existing social order. Those societies that rank high on this syndrome are much likelier to be stable democracies than those that rank low. Economic development and cultural change are linked in a complex pattern of reciprocal influence. Originally, Protestantism may have facilitated the rise of capitalism, leading to economic development, which in turn favored the emergence of the civic culture. But in those countries that attained high levels of prosperity, there eventually emerged postmaterialist values that tended to neutralize the emphasis on economic accumulation that earlier characterized Protestant societies.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 1203 - 1230
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988

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