Unpublished,

The Digital Revolution? Postindustrialism and the Nineteenth K-wave

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(2010)Unpublished manuscript.

Abstract

Whereas Inglehart and Baker (2000) try to show the relationship between economic development and systematic changes in basic values, this paper attempts to test the existence of a relationship between a certain set of values and economic fitness in a changed global economic environment and whether those values seem to translate into national cultures, or put differently whether certain values seem to be clustered more strongly within some countries than within others or whether they tend to balance each other out. Before we can look at the aggregate nation-level, we must establish a clear relationship between individual attitudes and a culture leading to a society better equipped for the ``New Economy'' and do so by investigating data from the second wave of the World Value Survey conducted in 1990. After having established this ``micro-macro-level link,'' we continue to show that there are indeed cross-national differences that leave some countries more successful in the new economic environment than others.

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