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Presents evidence that economic development, cultural change, & political change are linked in coherent & even, to some extent, predictable patterns, as modernization theory claimed, but modernization is not linear. In advanced industrial societies, the prevailing direction of development has changed in the last quarter century, & this shift is so distinctive that it might be described as postmodernization, rather than modernization. Data are analyzed from the 1990/91 World Value Survey, drawn from 43 nations throughout the world, representing almost 70% of the world's population & covering the full range of economic & political variation. Coherent cultural patterns are found, which are closely linked with the economic growth rates of given societies. The familiar modernization syndrome of industrialization & mass mobilization is linked with a consistent shift from traditional to rational legal values; this may go with either democratic or authoritarian regimes. But the emergence of advanced industrial society gives rise to a shift from scarcity values to postmodern values, in which a variety of attributes, from equal rights for women to democratic political institutions, become increasingly likely.
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