Christian Welzel - Böcker

This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democ...

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Democratization is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of all the key theories, actors, dynamics, and developments. Unrivalled in its up-to-date empirical material and range of ex...

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This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the ba...

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This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democ...

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This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the ba...

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This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democ...

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This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democ...

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This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, th...

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This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, th...

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This open access book unravels the geo-climatic source of the Wests emancipatory struggles and why the spirit of these struggles is about to spread around the world beyond its original geo-climatic rootwhich we describe as the Cool Water (CW-) Con...

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Der Bedarf an der Demokratiemessung ist in der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft in den letzten Jahren merklich gestiegen. Doch zugleich wurde in vielen demokratietheoretischen Debatten der Aspekt der Operationalisierung der vorgeschlagenen Demok...

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Eine unabdingbare Voraussetzung der staatlichen Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands war zweifellos der Zusammenbruch des kommunistischen Einparteisystems der ehemaligen DDR. Als nahezu allmachtige Staatspartei war die fruhere SED von diesem Zusammenbru...

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Die vorliegende Studie ist die gekürzte Fassung meiner Dissertationsschrift, die an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultÿt der Universitÿt Potsdam im November 1996 angenommen wurde. Sie entstand aus der von der Deutschen Forschu...

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Die vorliegende Studie ist die gekrzte Fassung meiner Dissertationsschrift, die an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultt der Universitt Potsdam im November 1996 angenommen wurde. Sie entstand aus der von der Deutschen Forschungsgem...

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