Value Orientations and their Political Consequences

Abstract

Value orientations have increasingly been used as predictors for party choice, political participation and political identities. Political value orientations include Old Politics orientations such as economic left-right and religious-secular values, and New Politics values such as materialist/post-materialist values. New Politics values have, however, been conceptualised in different ways and might include libertarian/authoritarian values, ecology versus economic growth values, and immigration orientations. Papers in this panel should use data from the European Values Study (EVS) or the World Values Survey (WVS) to identify empirically important political or social value dimensions, and then analyse the consequences of different value priorities along these dimensions. The relevant dependent variables should be party choice, political participation or left-right identification. Papers should use data from many countries and it might be relevant for control for prior sociostructural variables for examining the causal impact of value orientations. Analyses which examine whether the sociostructural variables have indirect effects via the value orientations are also welcomed.

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