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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"postmaterialism"”.
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Postmaterialism and Democracy: What Does the Postmaterialist Value Shift Mean for Democracy?
… analysis suggests that increase in the level of postmaterialism in a country will lead to increases in alternative political activity and other forms of direct participation.
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Poland after 1989: a shift to postmaterialism or a rise of the underclass?
This study attempts to evaluate whether or not the theories of social change and conflict formulated in the United States and Western Europe can be applied to postcommunist societies. In particular, with Poland as a case study, the applicability of two theories has been examined. One is Ronald …
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The nature of postmaterialism: a comparative study of West Germany and the United States
The social and economic structures in western societies are changing and with them are the political values of their citizens. This study investigates the nature of post-materialist value orientations in the United States and West Germany. The research aimed at determining whether the indicators …
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Why is there no Green Party in America?: Environmental politics and environmental consciousness in the United States and West Germany
… of the Green ideology will be employed: postmaterialism, the New Environmental Paradigm, and support for protest movements. The results deliver strong support for the hypothesis. The electoral resources for an American Green Party are weak.
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Democratic Paradox: The Role Of Regime Type In Civil War Intervention Initiation And Success
<p>Abstract: Justin M. Burnett: democratic paradox: the role of regime type in civil war intervention initiation and success. (Under the direction of Dr. Timothy Nordstrom) regime type is an important yet largely ignored factor in the likelihood of civil war intervention initiation and success. …
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Tensions of the self and discourses of being: Californian medicine, embodiment, metaphysics, and the absence of love
Contemporary understandings of embodied praxis concerned with the reconfiguration and reinvention of one’s body image are guided primarily by biomedical and mechanical (the body/mind is a biological organism and machine) or/and social constructionist (the body/mind is a social being) worldviews …