ABSTRACT

Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world.

part I|62 pages

Africa

chapter 1|20 pages

Explaining Botswana’s Success

chapter 2|19 pages

Culture and Development

Questions from South Africa 1

part II|75 pages

Confucian Countries

part III|21 pages

India

chapter 8|19 pages

India

How a Rich Nation Became Poor and Will Be Rich Again 1

part IV|71 pages

Islam

chapter 11|18 pages

Two Halves Did Not Make a Whole

Pakistan Before and After Bangladesh

chapter 12|15 pages

Turkey

Torn Between Two Civilizations

part V|93 pages

Latin America

chapter 13|17 pages

The Political Values of Development

The Case of Argentina

chapter 14|13 pages

The Importance of Culture

The Brazilian Case

chapter 15|20 pages

Economic Development and the Evolution of National Culture

The Case of Chile

chapter 16|17 pages

Mexico

The Camel and the Needle

part VI|79 pages

Orthodox/Eastern Europe

chapter 18|19 pages

Which Past Matters?

Culture and Economic Development in Eastern Europe After 1989 1

chapter 19|19 pages

Timeless Identity versus Another Final Modernity

Identity Master Myth and Social Change in Georgia

chapter 20|17 pages

A Tale of Two Regions

Novgorod and Pskov as Models of Symbolic Development

part VII|97 pages

The West

chapter 22|10 pages

Scene from a Fast-Food Restaurant

Signs of the Times in Black America and the Path Beyond

chapter 23|6 pages

Ireland as the Celtic Tiger

How Did It Happen?

chapter 24|19 pages

The Long and Winding Road

The Italian Path to Modernization 1

chapter 25|20 pages

Culture and the Pursuit of Success

The Case of Québec in the Twentieth Century

chapter 26|17 pages

The Spanish Transition

1975–82

chapter 27|21 pages

Strong Governance and Civic Participation

Some Notes on the Cultural Dimension of the Swedish Model