Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Anderson, Christopher Johannes
URN	etd-11212012-040232
Title	The nature of postmaterialism :a comparative study of West Germany and the United States
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	Political Science
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Shaiko, Ronald G. Committee Chair Shingles, Richard D. Committee Member Taylor, Charles Lewis Committee Member
Keywords	Germany (West)
Date of Defense	1989-06-27
Availability	restricted
Abstract The social and economic structures in western societies are changing and with them are the political values of their citizens. This study investigates the nature of post-materialist value orientations in the United States and West Germany. The research aimed at determining whether the indicators that Ronald Inglehart developed almost twenty years ago for explaining value—shifts are reliable tools to predict the nature of post-materialist values. These factors are: rising levels of education, a distinct cohort experience, and increased levels of economic security.With the help of mass-survey data from 1974 and 1980 that were collected in the United States and west Germany it was shown that there are other factors that are more powerful for predicting post-material values than the ones specified in Inglehart‘s theory. Moreover, the predictors are of a different explanatory power in the two countries under consideration. A preliminary attempt was made to find the reasons for the phenomenon of national differences.
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