Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment And The Quest For Emancipation - Softcover

Welzel, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107664837 ISBN 13: 9781107664838

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms.

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About the Author

Christian Welzel is Chair of Political Culture Research at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, and President of the World Values Survey Association. He is also special foreign consultant to the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia, and a permanent affiliate of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. A repeated recipient of large-scale grants from the German Science Foundation, Welzel is the author of more than one hundred scholarly publications in high ranking peer-reviewed journals in sociology, political science and psychology. His recent books include Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy (with Ronald Inglehart, Cambridge, 2005), Democratization (with Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen and Ronald Inglehart, 2009) and The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens (with Russell J. Dalton, Cambridge, 2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107664837
• ISBN 13: 9781107664838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472