Research in Context: Measuring Value Change
dc.contributor.author | Abramson, Paul R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ellis, Susan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Inglehart, Ronald F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T16:07:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T16:07:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Abramson, Paul R.; Ellis, Susan; Inglehart, Ronald; (1997). "Research in Context: Measuring Value Change." Political Behavior 19(1): 41-59. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45487> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-6687 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0190-9320 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45487 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abramson and Inglehart find a significant trend toward postmaterialist values in Western Europe, which they argue is largely driven by the gradual processes of generational replacement. Clarke, Dutt, and Rapkin argue that this trend is a methodological artifact of the wording of Inglehart's four-item measure of materialist/ postmaterialist values. They claim that because this battery does not include a question about unemployment, in periods of high unemployment respondents tend to choose postmaterialist goals. The long-term trend toward postmaterialism in Western Europe, they argue, results from rising levels of unemployment during the past two decades. Abramson and Inglehart point out that increases in inflation have a short-term impact on decreasing postmaterialism, but maintain that the positive relationship between unemployment and postmaterialism is spurious. As this analysis shows, Clarke, Dutt, and Rapkin find a positive relationship between unemployment and postmaterialism by building a model that has little theoretical justification and that is not robust to changes in specification. As this analysis demonstrates, unemployment is actually linked with support for materialist goals, and the trend toward post-materialism is robust in the face of alternative time frames, models, and specifications. The weight of the evidence demonstrates that the long-term trend toward postmaterialism in Western Europe is driven by generational replacement. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Political Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Research in Context: Measuring Value Change | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Political Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106-1248 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 5601 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1045 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, 303 South Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI, 48824-1032 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45487/1/11109_2004_Article_423943.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1024845706077 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Political Behavior | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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