Books by Ronald (University of Michigan Inglehart

Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, and political sociology.

What people want out of life is changing - their political goals, religious values, sexual norms, and economic motivations are being changed in roughly predictable ways. This book presents evidence of these changes from eighty nations, and explains the forces that are driving them.