THE NORTH AMERICAN TRAJECTORY
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THE NORTH AMERICAN TRAJECTORY
Cultural, Economic, and Political Ties among the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Ronald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, and Miguel Basaez
About the Authors
Ronald Inglehart is Professor of Political Science and Program Director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Author of more than one-hundred publications, his book Culture Shifts in Advanced Industrial Society was published in five languages.
Neil Nevitte is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a principal investigator in the Canadian National Election Survey and the World Values Surveys.
Miguel Basaez is Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Autonomo Tecnologico de Mexico and President of MORI de Mexico, a major survey research organization in Mexico.
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Inglehart, Ronald,
The North American trajectory : cultural, economic, and political ties among the United States, Canada, and Mexico / Ronald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, and Miguel Basanez.
p. cm. (Social institutions and social change)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-202-30556-2 (alk. paper) 0-202-30557-0 (paper)
1. North AmericaCivilization20th century. 2. United States RelationsCanada. 3. United StatesRelationsMexico. 4. CanadaRelationsUnited States. 5. MexicoRelationsUnited States. 6. CanadaRelationsMexico. 7. MexicoRelations Canada. I. Nevitte, Neil. II. Basanez, Miguel. III. Title. IV. Series.
E40.I54 1996
970.05dc20 96-8795
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ISBN 13: 978-0-202-30557-8 (pbk)
To Marita, Susan, and Tatiana with love
Contents
This book builds on several studies. Above all, it was made possible by the combined efforts of the eighty-three principal investigators who carried out the 1990 World Values Surveys in forty-four societies. The authors expresses their deep gratitude to Rasa Alishauskiene, Vladimir Andreyenkov, Soo Young Auh, David Barker, Elena Bashkirova, Marek Boguszak, Marita Carballo de Cilley, Pi-chao Chen, Hei-yuan Chiu, Eric de Costa, Juan Diez Nicolas, Karel Dobbelaere, Mattei Dogan, Javier Elzo, Ustun Erguder, Yilmaz Esmer, Blanka Filipcova, Michael Fogarty, Luis de Franca, Christian Friesl, Yuji Fukuda, Ivan Gabal, Alec Gallup, George Gallup, Renzo Gubert, Peter Gundelach, Loek Halman, Elemer Hankiss, Stephen Harding, Gordon Heald, Felix Heunks, Carlos Huneeus, Kenji Iijima, J. C. Jesumo, Fridrik Jonsson, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Jan Kerkhofs, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Renate Koecher, Marta Lagos, Max Larsen, Ola Listhaug, Jin-yun Liu, Nicolae Lotreanu, Leila Lotti, V. P. Madhok, Robert Manchin, Carlos Eduardo Meirelles Matheus, Anna Melich, Ruud de Moor, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Stefan Olafsson, Francisco Andres Orizo, R. C. Pandit, Juhani Pehkonen, Thor- leif Petterson, Jacques-Rene Rabier, Andrei Raichev, Vladimir Rak, Helene Riffault, Ole Riis, Andrus Saar, Renata Siemienska, Kancho Stoichev, Kareem Tejumola, Noel Timms, Mikk Titma, Niko Tos, Jorge Vala, Andrei Vardomatski, Christine Woessner, Jiang Xingrong, Vladimir Yadov, Seiko Yamazaki, Catalin Zamfir, Brigita Zepa, Xiang Zongde, and Paul Zulehner. The World Values Surveys build on the 1981 European Values Systems Survey directed by Jan Kerkhofs, Ruud de Moor, Gordon Heald, Juan Linz, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Jacques-Rene Rabier and Helene Riffault. Thanks are also due to Karlheinz Reif and Anna Melich of the Commission of the European Union, who directed the Euro-Barometer surveys, which constitute another major data source. Finally, we wish to acknowledge the contributions made by the participants in the two-wave Political Action study, Samuel Barnes, Dieter Fuchs, Jacques Hagenaars, Felix Heunks, M. Kent Jennings, Max Kaase, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Jacques Thomasson, and Jan Van Deth.
