| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics | 7 |
| Ch. 2 | Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change | 51 |
| Ch. 3 | Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies | 67 |
| Ch. 4 | Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values | 108 |
| Ch. 5 | The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994 | 131 |
| Ch. 6 | Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In | 160 |
| Ch. 7 | The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth | 216 |
| Ch. 8 | The Rise of New Issues and New Parties | 237 |
| Ch. 9 | The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990 | 267 |
| Ch. 10 | The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics | 293 |
| Ch. 11 | Trajectories of Social Change | 324 |
| App. 1 | A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2 | 343 |
| App. 2 | Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2 | 351 |
| App. 3 | Supplementary Figures for Chapters 3, 9, and 10; Figures A.3 (Chapter 6), A.4-A.21 (Chapter 9), A.22-A.26 (Chapter 10), and A.27 (Chapter 11) | 357 |
| App. 4 | Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book | 389 |
| App. 5 | Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset | 393 |
| References | 431 |
| Index | 445 |
