Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring

Mansoor Moaddel studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution, and social change. His current work focuses on the causes and consequences of human values. He has carried out values surveys in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey.Michele J. Gelfand is Professor of Psychology and Affiliate of the RH Smith School of Business and Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is an expert on culture and conflict. Her work has been published in outlets such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others.

• IntroductionMansoor Moaddel and Michele J. Gelfand SECTION I: Changes in Values and the Arab Spring Chapter 1. Changing Values in the Islamic World and the West: Social Tolerance and the Arab Spring Ronald F. Inglehart Chapter 2: Youth Perceptions and Values During the Arab Spring: Cross- national Variation and Trends Mansoor Moaddel and Julie de Jong SECTION II: Perspectives on Change: Development and Modernization Chapter 3: National Identity Versus National Pride in the Modalities of Liberal Territorial Nationalism and Islamic Nationalism in Muslim- Majority Countries Mansoor Moaddel Chapter 4: Modernization, World System, and Clash of Civilization Perspectives in Lay Views of the Development- Morality Nexus in the United States and the Middle East Arland Thornton, Kathryn M. Yount, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel Chapter 5: Lay Accounts of "Modern" and "Traditional" Family in Greater Cairo: A Test of Developmental Models of Family Life Kathryn M. Yount, Arland Thornton, Sohair Mehanna, and Shilpa N. Patel SECTION III: Social- Scientific Perspectives on Collective Action, Political Engagement, and Voting Behavior Chapter 6: The Roots of Political Activism in Six Muslim- Majority NationsNancy J. Davis, Robert V. Robinson, and Tom VanHeuvelen Chapter 7: The Arab Spring and Egyptian Revolution Makers: Predictors of Participation Mansoor Moaddel Chapter 8: Change and Continuity in Arab Attitudes toward Political Islam: The Impact of Political Transitions in Tunisia and Egypt from 2011 to 2013 Mark Tessler Chapter 9: Autocratic Recidivism: Computational Models of Why Revolutions Fail Andrzej Nowak, Michele J. Gelfand, Wojciech Borkowski, and Arie Kruglanski SECTION IV: Basic Methodological Issues in the Study of Values Chapter 10: Best Practices: Lessons from a Middle East Survey Research Program Julie de Jong and Linda Young-DeMarco Chapter 11: An Analysis of Subjective Culture in the Middle East: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Research ProgramJanetta Lun, Michele J. Gelfand, C. Bayan Bruss, Lily Assad, Zeynep Aycan, Munqith M. Dagher, and Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif

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