A research program for Culture Matters

"The objectives are to identify the values and attitudes that promote progress, including an assessment of the priority that attaches to each, and those that impede it; and to establish which values/attitudes positively or negatively influence evolution of democratic political institutions, economic development, and social justice, and to rank them."

(Lawrence E. Harrison, "Why Culture Matters", in : Culture Matters. How Values Shape Human Progress, ed. by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, New York, Basic Books, 2000, p. xxxii s.)