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  • Global Publics, Political Parties and Morality

    An Analysis Based on the World Values Survey

    by Arno Tausch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a groundbreaking empirical study on the persistence of religious morality in an increasingly secular world. Analyzing data from the 2019–2022 World Values Survey and European Values Survey, it examines religious adherence and morality across 82 countries and over 400 political parties. Using advanced index methodologies, the study reveals where and how religious norms, ... Read more

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  • Arab MENA Countries: Vulnerabilities and Constraints Against Democracy on the Eve of the Global COVID-19 Crisis

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers readers critical insights into a region in crisis and explores different facets of the crisis from governance to gender to the politics of identity, the challenge of the environment and the enduring impact of demographic variables and technological change. Whilst exploring the nature of the crises, the book also explores how policy-makers have responded to these and what other ... Read more

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  • Islamism, Crisis and Democratization

    Implications of the World Values Survey for the Muslim World

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book systematically assesses the value systems of active Muslims around the globe. Based on a multivariate analysis of recent World Values Survey data, it sheds new light on Muslim opinions and values in countries such as Indonesia, Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey. Due to a lack of democratic traditions, sluggish economic growth, escalating religiously motivated violence, and dissatisfaction ... Read more

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  • Global Catholicism, Tolerance and the Open Society

    An Empirical Study of the Value Systems of Roman Catholics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.3 billion Catholics around the globe, by far the largest denomination of Western Christianity. Based on an extensive analysis of data from the World Values Survey and other global opinion surveys, the book sheds new light on the value systems and opinions of Roman Catholics. The authors highlight core problems and ... Read more

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  • Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the global center and its periphery as well as current worldwide economic upheavals and potential future ... Read more

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  • Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy

    World System and World Values Perspectives

    Series series Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor scores ... Read more

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  • The Future of the Gulf Region

    Value Change and Global Cycles

    by Arno Tausch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region. In light of global power shifts, the threatening collapse of internal security in the West, and uncertainty about the current leadership vacuum in world society, this book explores a future leading role of the Gulf countries in such institutions as theG-20 and the OECD. Based on rigorous analysis of macro-level data and opinion surveys ... Read more

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  • Homonegativity and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism

    A Study Based on World Values Survey Data from 88 Countries and Territories

    by Arno Tausch ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Political Science
    This open access book describes the world’s increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ communities) are not universally accepted, and that today, in addition to xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, there is substantial homonegativity. This book explores this issue, reviews the empirical literature on the subject and provides new ... Read more

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  • Political Islam and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism

    An International Comparison

    by Arno Tausch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced statistical techniques to analyze how religiously motivated political extremism affects political and social outcomes as well as political violence. The study clearly shows that ... Read more

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  • Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Halvard Buhaug offer a theoretical approach that highlights ethnonationalism and how the relationship between group identities and inequalities are fundamental for successful mobilization to resort to violence. ... Read more

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  • Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change

    The Future of Transnational Society

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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