{"title":"Books by Ronald F. Inglehart","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780197547052","title":"Religion's Sudden Decline","description":"Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?\n\nThe world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline in religious belief and most of the world's people now say that God is less important in their lives than they said He was in the quarter century before 2007. The American public showed the most dramatic shift of all. The United States, which for many years stood as a highly religious outlier among the world's high-income countries, now ranks as the 12th least religious country for which data are available. Many factors contributed to this dramatic worldwide shift, but as Inglehart shows, certain ones stand out. For centuries, virtually all major religions encouraged women to stay home and produce as many children as possible; and they sternly discouraged divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. These norms were necessary for societies to survive when facing high infant mortality and low life expectancy: societies that didn't instill them tended to die out. Recent technological advances have greatly increased life expectancy and cut infant mortality to a tiny fraction of its historic levels, making these norms no longer necessary for societal survival. These norms require repressing strong natural urges, but, since they present traditional norms as absolute values, most religions strongly resist change. The resulting tension, together with the fact that rising existential security has made people less dependent on religion, opened the way for an exodus from religion. Utilizing a massive global data base, Inglehart analyzes the conditions under which religiosity collapses, and explores its implications for the future.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226295480693,"sku":"9780197547052","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197547052_a2b34489-ad7e-4cb4-a8e0-90775b0f3ef0.jpg?v=1786011380"},{"product_id":"9780198732280","title":"Democratization","description":"Democratization  is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of the key theories, actors, dynamics, and developments. This authoritative guide brings together leading experts from diverse international backgrounds, including some of the best known names in the field, making it an invaluable resource to students of democratization. \n\nThis second edition reflects the dramatic changes in today's political world, with empirical coverage of developments on every continent. It considers the role of new technologies, including a dedicated chapter on social media and democratization, as well as the resilience of authoritarianism and renewed antidemocratic tendencies in many parts of the world. \n\n\nThe book is accompanied by a range of online resources designed to support both students and lecturers.\n\n For students: \n- Revise key terms and test your knowledge of terminology from the book with our digital flashcard glossary.\n- Expand your knowledge of key developments in world affairs with additional case studies.\n- Take your learning further with links to reliable web content and relevant OUP journals.\n\n For registered adopters of the textbook: \n- Guide class debate with suggested seminar questions and activities.\n- Adapt PowerPoint(R) slides as a basis for lecture presentations, or use as handouts in class.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226811117941,"sku":"9780198732280","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198732280_087d0601-5168-43ea-974e-bd6cab5f2cb5.jpg?v=1786012276"},{"product_id":"9780472056354","title":"China as Number One?","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most significant global events in the last forty years has been the rise of China— economically, technologically, politically, and militarily. The question on people's minds for decades has been whether China will replace the United States as a superpower in the near future. But for China, this power must be comprehensive — having strong economic and militant forces are only two pieces of the puzzle. China must also possess soft power, such as attractive ideologies, values, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChina as Number One? \u003c\/i\u003eexplores China’s soft powers through the eyes of Chinese citizens. Utilizing data from the World Values Survey, the contributors to this collection analyze the potential soft power of a rising China by examining its residents' social values. A comprehensive study of changes and continuities in the political and social values of Chinese citizens, the book examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernization theory and cross-national comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290782740853,"sku":"9780472056354","price":25.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780472056354_562f4ec9-daad-493d-a165-c3ef64f560be.jpg?v=1786013912"},{"product_id":"9780472065912","title":"Value Change in Global Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this pioneering work, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift \u003cbr\u003efrom Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eValue Change in Global Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes over thirty years worth of national surveys in European countries and presents the most comprehensive and nuanced discussion of this shift to date. By paying special attention to the way generational replacement transforms values among mass publics, the authors are able to present a comprehensive analysis of the processes through which values change. \u003cbr\u003eIn addition, \u003ci\u003eValue Change in Global Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the 1990-91 World Values Survey, conducted in forty societies representing over seventy percent of the world's population. These surveys cover an unprecedentedly broad range of the economic and political spectrum, with data from low-income countries (such as China, India, Mexico, and Nigeria), newly industrialized countries (such as South Korea) and former state-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This data adds significant new meaning to our understanding of attitude shifts throughout the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValue Change in Global Perspective \u003c\/i\u003ehas been written to meet the needs of scholars and students alike. The use of percentage, percentage differences, and algebraic standardization procedures will make the results easy to understand and useful in courses in comparative politics and in public opinion. \u003cbr\u003ePaul R. Abramson is Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University. 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