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List of Figures Figure 1.1 A Simple Model of Ideas, Institutions, and Influence 50 Figure 2.1 Global Cultural Map, 2000 72 Figure 2.2 Economic Development and Subjective Well-Being in Latin America and Other Countries 81 Figure 2.3 Religion and Happiness in Eighty-Three Countries 84 Figure 2.4 Changes in Emphasis on Religion in Fifty-Two Countries, 1981–2007 86 Figure 2.5 Impact of Self-Expression Values on Effective Democracy 91 Figure 3.1 Illiterate Mexican Population Fifteen Years Old and Older, 1970–1997 112 Figure 3.2 Average Number of Years in School of Mexican Population Fifteen Years Old and Older, 1970–1997 113 Figure 3.3 Mexican Women of Childbearing Age Living in Stable Relationships Who Use Contraception, 1976–2000 115 Figure 3.4 Mexican Women of Childbearing Age Who Do Not Use Contraception, 1997 115 Figure 7.1 The Ideological Axes of Political-Religious Competition and the Church’s Strategic Dilemma 263 xi xii | List of Figures Figure 7.2 Religious Hegemony, Capacity to Mobilize, and Leverage of the Base 285 Figure 7.3 Political Orientation of Catholics in Ten Latin American Countries, 2000 291 Figure 7.4 The Bishops’ Dilemma 301 ...

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