<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey’s place within them. Our study, which is based on 92,289 representative individuals with complete data in 68 countries, representing 56.89% of the global population, looks at hard-core economic values in these countries. From our new nine dimensions for the determination of the geography of human values, based on a promax factor analysis of the available data, we use six factor analytical scores to calculate a new Global Value Development Index, which combines: avoiding economic permissiveness; avoiding racism; avoiding distrust of the army and the press; avoiding the authoritarian character; tolerance and respect; and avoiding the rejection of the market economy and democracy. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member countries. But there are still considerable deficits concerning the liberal values components, which are very important for effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a torn country.</p></abstract>

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey’s place within them. Our study, which is based on 92,289 representative individuals with complete data in 68 countries, representing 56.89% of the global population, looks at hard-core economic values in these countries. From our new nine dimensions for the determination of the geography of human values, based on a promax factor analysis of the available data, we use six factor analytical scores to calculate a new Global Value Development Index, which combines: avoiding economic permissiveness; avoiding racism; avoiding distrust of the army and the press; avoiding the authoritarian character; tolerance and respect; and avoiding the rejection of the market economy and democracy. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member countries. But there are still considerable deficits concerning the liberal values components, which are very important for effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a torn country.

Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values

Polish Political Science Review

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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps,...

Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values

Published Online: Jul 19, 2018

Page range: 73 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ppsr-2015-0043

Keywords
index numbers and aggregation, international relations, international political economy, religion, bureaucracy, administrative processes, corruption

© 2018 Arno Tausch, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values

Published Online: Jul 19, 2018

Page range: 73 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ppsr-2015-0043

Keywordsindex numbers and aggregation, international relations, international political economy, religion, bureaucracy, administrative processes, corruption

© 2018 Arno Tausch, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
index numbers and aggregation, international relations, international political economy, religion, bureaucracy, administrative processes, corruption