Traditional cultural values have long been seen by scholars as a significant obstacle to political and economic development in the post colonial world, especially in Africa and Asia. Publics which prioritise things like the collective good of the family and community over procedure and individual rights, grant uncritical respect to authority and social hierarchy, and identify themselves primarily as members of sub-national kinship groups rather than modern nationstates, are said to be particularly inhospitable places for representative democracies and market economies to take root.
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Mattes, R. B., & Shin, D. C. (2005). The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: the cases of South Korea and South Africa. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town
Mattes, R., & Shin, D. C. (2005). The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: The cases of South Korea and South Africa University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19402
Mattes, Robert, and Doh Chull Shin The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: The cases of South Korea and South Africa. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19402
Mattes R, Shin DC. The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: The cases of South Korea and South Africa. 2005 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19402
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