1. Although-if I remember correctly–I was invited as a representative of the community of
electoral researchers, I have been working on this proposal on the assumption that the ESS …

It has long been argued that values should hold a central role in political analysis (Easton,
1953). This is increasingly relevant in an era of de-alignment, catch-all parties and critical …

The questions in the election surveys often changed from election to election. It is therefore
rather complicated to find measurements that can be compared over time. In the face of …

This chapter outlines how the socio-structural variables and the value orientations are
operationalised and shows the comparative distributions of these variables. The socio …

Values are prescriptive beliefs which signify that certain end-states or modes of conduct are
personally or socially preferable compared to other end-states or modes of conduct …

抄録< jats: title> Abstract</jats: title>< jats: p> The general hypothesis of the book is that the
power of long-term factors to explain party choice has gradually become weaker. Since …

Recent research from social psychology suggests that personal values predict political
behavior, such as vote choice. In contrast to previous studies, it is hypothesized in this article …

People's underlying 'deep-rooted'value orientations tend not only to predict and help explain
people's opinions, attitudes and behaviour patterns (Rokeach, 1973), but also to influence …

Voting behaviour is generally not so much a matter of choosing one party out of a list of all
parties on a ballot paper, but rather a choice between a much smaller number of acceptable …

We examined relations of the 10 types of values in Schwartz's (1992) theory of voting.
Hypotheses were generated by relating the core motivations of each value type to the …