Peter

Peter Chai is a student and research assistant at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University at the time of the publication of this book. His research areas are political sociology and comparative politics, and his research interests include public opinion, value change, and civic culture in East Asia. He has written articles on the topics of modernization, democratization, and social movement. This book is a revised part of the literature review section of his ongoing thesis titled "A Review of Ronald Inglehart's Postmaterialist Thesis and Its Application to the Greater China Area.” In his writing, he intends to combine theoretical and empirical discussions, make a fair representation of various scholars and their findings, and test their hypotheses with updated evidence to shed light on the importance of methodological challenges and contextual details.