ABSTRACT
Theoretical framework and literature review Human Development (HD) Theory addresses how cultures evolve over time and the implications of cultural development for political development. Imbedded in this question one also finds inquiry about how economic progress and religious factors affect changes in values and people’s choice for their political system. These are complex issues that have been central to a wide range of social science disciplines, from economics, politics, and sociology to cultural anthropology. How and why human values change and how these changes affect the way in which societies govern themselves has kept scholars busy for some time. In the more contemporary era, since the late eighteenth century, social scientists have identified causal linkages between economic modernization, cultural change, and political development (Acemoglu and Robinson 2012; Condorcet 1795; Gurr 1970; Huntington 1971; Inglehart 1997; Levy 1967).
