Cultures as networks of cultural traits: a unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances
利用世界价值观调查数据，将国家文化定义为文化特质及其相互依赖的网络，提出用copula图形模型间的杰弗里斯散度衡量文化距离，并分析其与地理、历史、经济和政治距离的相关性。
Abstract Using data from the sixth wave of the World Value Survey and operationalising a definition of national culture that emphasises both specific cultural traits and the inter-dependence among them, this paper proposes a methodology to reveal the latent network structure of every national culture and to measure the cultural distance associated with every pair of countries as a Jeffreys’ divergence between copula graphical models. The two components of this new measure of cultural distance show different correlations with measures of geographical, historical, economic, and political distance among countries and with the similarity in the topologies of the countries cultural networks.