Economic Uncertainty and European Solidarity: Public Opinion Trends

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 440, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 66-97

  Inglehart, Ronald ^a   Rabier, Jacques René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

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EID: 84925911070     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000271627844000108     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. See Ronald Inglehart, The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), Chap. 12.
2. See David Easton, A Framework for Political Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965), pp. 124-26. Cf. Seymour M. Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review 53, 1 (March, 1959).
3. For a discussion of utilitarian support versus affective support, see David Handley, “Public Support for European Integration” (Ph.D. diss. University of Geneva, 1975); cf. Werner Feld and John Wildgen, Domestic Political Realities and European Integration (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1976).
4. See Karl W. Deutsch, Political Community, Chap. 3.
5. See Inglehart, The Silent Revolution, Chapter 12; and Robert D. Putnam, “Interdependence and the Italian Communists,” International Organization, 32, 2 (Spring, 1978), forthcoming.
6. For a fuller discussion of “Cognitive Mobilization” see Inglehart, “Cognitive Mobilization and European Identity,” Comparative Politics 3, 1 (October 1970) pp. 45-70; the Materialist/Post-Materialist hypothesis was first developed in Inglehart, “Changing Value Priorities and European Integration,” Journal of Common Market Studies 10, 1 (September 1971) pp. 1-36. Both themes have been explored further in Inglehart, The Silent Revolution, Chaps. 2, 11, 12.
7. Much of the groundwork for the Political Orientation Typology used here was laid by Bruno Roche of the Institut Francais d'Opinion Publique, who carried out an initial series of typological analyses. The authors are indebted to M. Roche for his contributions.
8. Table 9 combines results from the Fall 1976 and Fall 1977 surveys in order to compensate for relatively large amounts of missing data due to nonresponse and because Centrist parties, such as the British Liberals, or nonclassifiable parties, such as the Belgian ethnic separatists, are excluded from these tables.