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POLARIZED PRIORITIES OR FLEXIBLE ALTERNATIVES? DIMENSIONALITY IN INGLEHART'S MATERIALISM—POSTMATERIALISM SCALE*

POLARIZED PRIORITIES OR FLEXIBLE ALTERNATIVES? DIMENSIONALITY IN INGLEHART'S... AbstractRonald Inglehart's Postmaterialism thesis has undoubtedly been one of the mostinfluential ideas in cross-national and cross-temporal research on politicalbehavior over the past two decades. The wide-ranging debate and criticismgenerated by the Inglehart thesis has focused both on theoretical issuesconcerning the nature of values and on methodological issues concerning themeasurement of Materialism and Postmaterialism, particularly the method forranking individual responses. Using a data set that employed both the originalranking method for measuring values and an alternative rating method, we explorethe dimensional structure of these values and discuss the implications ofdifferences between the two measurement strategies. The two-dimensional solutionprovided by the rating method is, we argue, a more theoretically appropriate wayof understanding Materialist and Postmaterialist values than the notion of asingle conflict dimension, since it allows for a more flexible and realisticaccount of the choices made by most social actors—choices which mayrepresent both Materialism and Postmaterialism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Public Opinion Research Oxford University Press

POLARIZED PRIORITIES OR FLEXIBLE ALTERNATIVES? DIMENSIONALITY IN INGLEHART'S MATERIALISM—POSTMATERIALISM SCALE*

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
© World Association for Public Opinion Research
ISSN
0954-2892
eISSN
1471-6909
DOI
10.1093/ijpor/6.3.264
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Abstract

AbstractRonald Inglehart's Postmaterialism thesis has undoubtedly been one of the mostinfluential ideas in cross-national and cross-temporal research on politicalbehavior over the past two decades. The wide-ranging debate and criticismgenerated by the Inglehart thesis has focused both on theoretical issuesconcerning the nature of values and on methodological issues concerning themeasurement of Materialism and Postmaterialism, particularly the method forranking individual responses. Using a data set that employed both the originalranking method for measuring values and an alternative rating method, we explorethe dimensional structure of these values and discuss the implications ofdifferences between the two measurement strategies. The two-dimensional solutionprovided by the rating method is, we argue, a more theoretically appropriate wayof understanding Materialist and Postmaterialist values than the notion of asingle conflict dimension, since it allows for a more flexible and realisticaccount of the choices made by most social actors—choices which mayrepresent both Materialism and Postmaterialism.

Journal

International Journal of Public Opinion ResearchOxford University Press

Published: Oct 1, 1994

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