Worth Reading: New Publications by the WVSA Vice-President Professor Christian Welzel!

Full texts of 3 new publications by the WVSA Vice-President and co-author of the revised of the theory of modernization Professor Christian Welzel are available now for downloading free of charge at the WVSA web-site (full texts, free access - please, proceed to the end of the page to download texts as PDF files):

"Democracy Misunderstood: Authoritarian Notions of Democracy around the Globe" by Christian Welzel and Helen Kirsch in World Values Research WVR Volume 9, Number 1, 2017.

"The Legitimacy Puzzle: Why So Many People Confuse the Absence of Democracy with Its Presence" by S. Kruse, M. Ravlik and C. Welzel in World Values Research WVR Volume 9, Number 2, 2017.

"Emancipating Sexuality: Breakthroughs into a Bulwark of Tradition" by Amy Alexander, Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel in Social Indicators Research (2016) 129: 909.

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Image result for christian welzel Christian Welzel is the Political Culture Research Professor at Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany. He is also President (emer.) and Vice-President of the World Values Survey Association and Foreign Consultant to the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the National Research University/Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. His research focuses on human empowerment, emancipative values, cultural change and democratization. A recipient of various large-scale grants, Welzel is the author of more than a hundred scholarly publications. Besides his just published Freedom Rising (2013 at CUP, winner of the Alexander George Award and the Stein Rokkan Prize, see www.cambridge.org/welzel), the most recent books include: The Civic Culture Transformed (with Russell J. Dalton, at CUP 2014); Democratization (with Christian Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart and Patrick Bernhagen, at OUP 2009) and Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy (with Ronald Inglehart, 2005 at CUP).