Cool Water Effect

Christian Welzel is Chair in Political Culture Research at Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and Vice-President of the World Values Survey Association.Stefan Kruse is International Development Consultant and former Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy at Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany.Lennart Brunkert is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany.Steven A. Brieger is Associate Professor in International Business at the University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex, UK.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1 The Emancipatory Turn in Civilization  14.- Chapter 2 The CW-Condition Understood.- Chapter 3 The CW-Condition Measured.- Chapter 4 Development as Emancipation.- Chapter 5 The CW-Condition’s Gestation.- Chapter 6 The CW-Condition’s Egalitarianness.- Chapter 7 The CW-Condition and Colonialism.- Chapter 8 The CW-Condition in Perspective.- Chapter 9 The CW-Effect beyond Countries.- Chapter 10 The CW-Condition and Genes.- Chapter 11 The Recess of the CW-Condition’s Grip.- Conclusion.