The Human Empowerment Sequence and the Development of Libertarian Values

A Theoretical and Empirical Adjustment to the Human Empowerment Sequence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2314830
AutoresKris Dunn (0000-0002-2156-6930, University of Leeds, autor de correspondencia), Evelyn Griffiths (University of Leeds), Lamb (0000-0002-9817-3692, University of Leeds), Sarah Lamb (0000-0003-4619-3269, University of Leeds), Rebecca Shortt (University of Oxford), Eleanor Theochari (University of Leeds)
Año2017
Volumen48
Número5
Páginas771-789
Fecha de publicación2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022022117699882
OpenAlexW2603087607
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas40

Building on the work of Inglehart and colleagues, Welzel sets out a step-by-step theory explaining how democracies arise from processes of modernization. The intermediary stages in the causal chain he sets out explain the connection between action resources and emancipatory values. In short, Welzel provides strong evidence that people must first have the material, intellectual, and connective resources to exercise certain freedoms before they develop values that will motivate them to seek out those freedoms. Although we are convinced by much of Welzel's argument, we also note a substantial overlap between these intermediary stages of Welzel's theory and the individual-level authoritarianism literature. Integrating current theory on authoritarianism into Welzel's thesis at the point of overlap provides for a distinct set of hypotheses and a more nuanced understanding of how individual differences work in Welzel's theory. Analyses of data from Wave 5 of the World Values Survey and Vanhanen provide some initial evidence in support of our amended view of the intermediary stages of Welzel's modernization thesis

Argument (complex analysis · Authoritarianism · Causal chain · Democracy · Economics · Empowerment · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · World Values Survey · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology