Dimensions and Dynamics of National Culture: Synthesizing Hofstede With Inglehart - PubMed (original) (raw)

Cultural change Distrust–Trust. Note: Advanced postindustrial democracies (N = 25; _N_respondents = 153,868) include _Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark_a, Finland, _France_a, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, _Ireland, Italy_a, Japan, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United States. Countries in italics are used in the first cohort (N = 15; _N_respondents = 108,064). Former Soviet Satellites (N = 9; _N_respondents = 51,008) include Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. There is no reliable data available to calculate a score for the first cohort. Former Soviet Union (N = 15; _N_respondents = 81,978) include Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine (only the score of Russia [46] is known for the first cohort). Developing societies (N = 12; _N_respondents = 74,071) include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Iran, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela. There is no reliable data available to calculate a score for the first cohort. Low-income countries (N = 6; _N_respondents = 35,457) include Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Peru, and Philippines. There is no reliable data available to calculate a score for the first cohort. We exclude Vietnam here given its very high (outlier) score on the Distrust–Trust dimension (see the

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for additional information). aFor the first cohort, items are unavailable for these seven countries and/or the number of respondents is less than 100. For Denmark, France, and Italy, the first item is missing, and the number of observations for the second item is 94, 88, and 75, respectively.