Title: Human Development, Emancipation
1Human Development, Emancipation and Democracy
Chris Welzel Professor of Political
Science International University Bremen
(IUB) Email c.welzel_at_iu-bremen.de
Executive Committee, World Values
Surveys, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa
11 / 2002)
2The Concept of Human Development
3Is the Striving for Human Choice an
Anthropological Universal?
Making choices is the most specific ability of
the human species, so it is justified to
conceptualize HD in terms of human choice.
But is striving for choice a general human
motivation?
In more than 140 national surveys of the WVS,
there is a highly significant positive
correlation between individuals life
satisfaction and their perception of how much
choice and control they have over their lifes. On
average, this correlation points to r.40 with
little variation for different cultural zones. On
the aggregate level the same correlation points
to r.76.
4Effective Democracy
Effective Democracy Freedom Rights Efficacy
Factor (0 to 100 scale) (0 to 1.0 scale)
Freedom Rights combined level of civil and
political rights From Freedom House (scales
reversed, added and standardized To 100 per cent)
Elite Integrity Law-abiding elite behavior from
Transparency International (inverse of
corruption perception scoeres)
5Formal Democracy and Effective Democracy
6Emancipative Values and Effective Democracy
across Nations
7Emancipative Values and Effective Democracy
across CZs
8Controlling the Effect of Emancipative Values for
Democratic Tradition
9Controlling the Effect of the Democratic
Tradition for Emancipative Values
10Three Competing Approaches in the Political
Culture Camp
Regime Support
Communitarian Attitude
Emancipative Attitude
11Support for Democracy versus Emancipative Values
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13Intrinsic and Instrumental Support for Democracy
14Elite Integrity and Elite Openness represent one
dimension of Elite Quality
15Elite Quality Shapes Effective Democrcacy
16SEV shape Elite Quality
17SEV are a Force that Reduces Façade Democracy
18SEV are a Force that Reduces Façade Democracy
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