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On May 8, has died Ronald Inglehart, the last living titan of political science. He is best known for the World Values Survey, a project he started back in 1981, and ran for more than 40 years.
The results of these studies are very nicely visualized in “Inglehart’s charts. The first of them came out in 1997, the last in 2020. On the pictures attached to this post, you can find the 2017 and 2020 charts, and all these images are clickable for a more useful reasons.
The horizontal axis shows the survival or self-expression values adopted by the majority of the country’s population. Survival values are economic and physical security, intolerance of dissent, low value of personal freedom, etc.
Its opposite edge is strongly connected with personal freedom, a high level of acceptance of the other, and a low value of power hierarchy.
The vertical axis shows the division into traditional and secular values. On one side are religiosity, absolute standards for everyone, social conformism, etc. It opposite, secular-rational values behavior part has connected with achieving personal success, preference for a secular state, freedom of expression, etc.
There is no matter to moralize. You can just compare it, and make your own findings. Or questions, why not?
