The Central Liberal Truth
Subtitle: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195331806
Subjects: Development economics; Economics; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political structure & processes; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Sciences; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Social Science / Third World Development; Developing Countries
First sentence: THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL VALUES, beliefs, and attitudes on the way that societies evolve has been shunned by scholars, politicians, and development experts, notwithstanding the views of Tocqueville, Max Weber, and more recently Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, David Landes, Robert Putnam, and Lucian Pye, among others.