Ronald Inglehart, Wayne E. Baker, Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values, American Sociological Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back: Continuity and Change at the Turn of the Millenium (Feb., 2000), pp. 19-51
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