Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1537-5943|85|3|905-920
ISSN： 0003-0554
Source： American Political Science Review, Vol.85, Iss.3, 1991-09, pp. : 905-920
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Abstract
During the past two decades a four-item battery administered in biannual Euro-Barometer surveys has been used to measure changing value priorities in Western European countries. We provide evidence that the measure is seriously flawed. Pooled cross-sectional time series analyses for the 1976–86 period reveal that the Euro-Barometer postmaterialist-materialist value index and two of its components are very sensitive to short-term changes in economic conditions, and that the failure to include a statement about unemployment in the four-item values battery accounts for much of the apparent growth of postmaterialist values in several countries after 1980. The aggregate-level findings are buttressed by analyses of panel data from three countries.
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