Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

S.N.艾森斯塔特（1923－），享有国际声誉的以色列社会学家，新功能主义和现代化理论的重要代表人物之一。现为以色列耶路撒冷希伯来大学社会学系荣休教授、美国芝加哥大学社会思想委员会客座教授。主要著作有：《帝国的政治体制》（1963）、《现代化：社会的分析和分层》（1966）、《政治社会学》（1970）、《社会的分析和分层》（1971）、《传统·变迁·现代性》（1970）、《革命与社会转变：文明的比较研究》（1978）等等。

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than...(展开全部)

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources. In six theoretical chapters, Profe...(展开全部)

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources. In six theoretical chapters, Profe...(展开全部)

马丁·吉伦斯 加州大学洛杉矶分校教授，曾任普林斯顿大学政治学教授，美国人文与科学学院院士。他的研究领域包括：代表性、公众舆论和大众媒体，特别是与不平等和公共政策有关的问题。他的主要著作包括：《为什么美国人讨厌福利:种族、媒体和反贫困政策的政治》（Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy）《美国的民主？:哪里出了问题，我们能做些什么》（Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do about It）。 译者 孟天广 清华大学社会科学学院副院长、政治学系长聘副教授、教育部青年长江学者，兼任清华大学计算社会科学平台执行主任、苏世民书院兼聘教授。主要研究领域为中国...(展开全部)

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy--but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequalit...(展开全部)