We have been spending a lot of time thinking about how it applies to other countries that
we did not study, and I think that there are somewhat different questions that apply to
reception in different areas — the countries that we did study and in countries in the rest of
the world. I think that there is actual development going on in the field, although I think it
is at the beginning. And I do think that there is some tendency to say “well, how can we fit
our case into this framework” — rather than thinking “OK, how can we develop it further.”
And this applies especially to parts of the world that we did not study. So what we would
really like to see is for people to not just apply our categories, but to think about how to do
this same kind of analysis in their part of the world. This would involve developing new
theory, including new models, new conceptual distinctions, and introducing new variables,
or different values of some of the variables that we introduced. Obviously, this is harder
than just applying the framework. People are beginning to do some pretty interesting work
in that respect, but most is still in progress.