Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris
"This is the book that I have been waiting for in comparative gender politics. It advances new theory, tests that theory with the best available data, and raises enough additional questions to inspire a generation of graduate students."
-Professor W. Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University
The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. But the force of this "rising tide" has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes toward gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women's and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (1) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (2) the move from industrial to postindustrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare almost 70 nations, ranging from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. This volume is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development and political sociology.
Ronald Inglehart is Professor of Political Science and Program Director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His research deals with changing belief systems and their impact on social and political change. He helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and directs the World Values Survey. His books include Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies (1997).
Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work analyzes comparative elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communication. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include Democratic Phoenix (2002), Digital Divide (2001), and A Virtuous Circle (2000).
