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. His previous research project analyzed the determinants of ideological production in the Islamic world, in which he studies the rise of Islamic modernism in Egypt, India, and Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; liberal nationalism in Egypt, anti-clerical secularism in Iran, liberal Arabism and pan-Arab nationalism in Syria and Iraq in the first half of the twentieth century; and Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria in the second half of the twentieth century.

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. She is the co-editor of The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture (with Jeanne Brett, Stanford University Press) and The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations (with Carsten De Dreu, Erlbaum) and is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series and Frontiers of Culture and Psychology series (with CY Chiu and Ying-Yi Hong, Oxford University Press). Gelfand is the Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management, Past Division Chair of the Conflict Division of the Academy of Management, and Past Treasurer of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Introduction
Mansoor 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 Nations
Nancy 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 Program
Janetta Lun, Michele J. Gelfand, C. Bayan Bruss, Lily Assad, Zeynep Aycan, Munqith M. Dagher, and
Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif