"The Theory of Human Development: A Cross-Cultural Analysis", Research Paper

[Baba Bey]

European Journal of Political Research 42: 341–379, 2003 341

Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart, Hans-Dieter Klingemann

"THE THEORY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS"

International University Bremen (IUB), Germany;
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA;
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany

http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/publication_509/files/EJPR42.pdf

Abstract:

This article demonstrates that socioeconomic development,
emancipative cultural change and democratization constitute
a coherent syndrome of social progress - a syndrome whose
common focus has not been properly specified by classical
modernization theory. We specify this syndrome as "human development",
arguing that its three components have a common focus on
broadening human choice.
Socioeconomic development gives people the objective means
of choice by increasing individual resources; rising emancipative
values strengthen people's subjective orientation towards choice;
and democratization provides legal guarantees of choice by
institutionalizing freedom rights. Analysis of data from the World Values Surveys
demonstrates that the linkage between individual resources,
emancipative values and freedom rights is universal in its presence
across nations, regions and cultural zones; that this human development
syndrome is shaped by a causal effect of individual resources and
emancipative values on freedom rights; and that this effect operates
through its impact on elite integrity, as the factor which makes
freedom rights effective.

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Post by Baba Bey
"THE THEORY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Well, well, you really should read that article carefully, you primitive,
backward, dumb, fascist animal! Though it's safe to say, there will be no
"human development" possible for Turkish Nazi pigs like you!