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Value Change in Industrial Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Ronald Inglehart
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Scott C. Flanagan
Affiliation:
Florida State University

Abstract

Ronald Inglehart has argued that, while most of the major political parties in Western countries tend to be aligned along a social class–based axis, support for new political movements and new political parties largely reflects the tension between materialist and postmaterialist goals and values. This has presented something of a dilemma to the traditional parties, and helps account for the decline of social-class voting. Scott Flanagan takes issue with Inglehart's interpretation in several particulars. Although their views converge in many respects, Flanagan urges conceptual reorientations and adumbrates a different interpretation of post–World War II political development in Europe and Japan.

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Controversies
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1987

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