By Ronald Inglehart
This booklet contends that underneath the frenzied activism of the sixties and the seeming quiescence of the seventies, a "silent revolution" has been taking place that's steadily yet essentially altering political lifestyles during the Western international. Ronald Inglehart makes a speciality of elements of this revolution: a shift from an overpowering emphasis on fabric values and actual protection towards larger predicament with the standard of lifestyles; and a rise within the political talents of Western publics that permits them to play a better function in making vital political decisions.
Originally released in 1977.
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13 A similar pattern of decline can be seen in public attitudes toward political parties. This decline obviously reflects the impact of short-term events such as the Watergate scandals, but it may also be a symptom of a long-term transformation which is rooted in the formative experiences of given generations and progressively revealed as one generation replaces another. For these changes are not merely American. Decline in patriotism and support for key national institutions can be found among the young of virtually all advanced industrial countries.
Fortunately, however, certain indirect tests can give us a clearer sense of whether these striking age group differences reflect inter-generational change or life-cycle effects. The hypothesis that links expected age-group patterns with the historical experience of a given country points to a test that could be very revealing. There is no particular reason why one would expect the life-cycle of Englishmen to differ fundamentally from that of Germans or Frenchmen. But the economic and political history of these countries does differ in important respects.
It seems more than likely that the proportion of respondents giving high priority to "Fighting rising prices" would increase not as the result of fundamental value change, but simply because this is a very serious current problem. This type of instability probably would be much greater if we simply asked the respondents to rate the importance of rising prices by itself; but in our index, one's choice of this item is constrained by the fact that it must be ranked against other desired goals. Almost everyone was aware that rising prices were a more important problem in 1973 than in 1970; but by no means all of those who ranked "Freedom of speech" above "Rising prices" in 1970 would be willing to change this ranking in 1973.