Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- Series Editors' Preface / Peter Ester and Loek Halman -- Dedication / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- Acknowledgments / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- Figures and Tables / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- Chapter One Political Values, Identification, Participation, and Value Change / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- Chapter Two Patterns of Social and Political Integration / Felix Heunks -- Chapter Three Left and Right in Modern Society / Loek Halman and Ton Heinen -- Chapter Four Tolerance and Intolerance in Advanced Industrial States: The Cross-Time Evidence / Neil Nevitte -- Chapter Five Individualization or Neo-Conservatism? / Peter Gundelach and Svend Kreiner -- Chapter Six Does Western Europe Stop at the Pyrenees? / Juan Diez Medrano -- Chapter Seven Volunteering and Politics: Involvement in Voluntary Associations from a ‘Civic Culture' Perspective / Paul Dekker and Andries van den Broek -- Chapter Eight The Impact of Old Politics and New Politics Value Orientations on Party Choice: A Comparative Study / Oddbjørn Knutsen -- Chapter Nine Distrust, Involvement, and Political Protest in Western Democracies / Oscar Gabriel -- Chapter Ten Varieties of Political Participation / Felix Heunks -- Chapter Eleven Cohort Replacement and Generation Formation in Western Polities / Andries van den Broek -- Chapter Twelve The Shifting Sources of Morality: From Religion to Post-Materialism? / Loek Halman and Thorleif Pettersson -- Chapter Thirteen Unpacking Environmental Orientations: Deep or Superficial? / Mebs Kanji and Neil Nevitte -- Appendices / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte -- About the Authors / Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte.

The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values, initiated by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG) in the late 1970s, at that time an informal grouping of academics. Now, it is carried on in the setting of a foundation, using the (abbreviated) name of the group European Values Study (EVS). The EVSSG aimed at designing and conducting a major empirical study of the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct. A rich academic literature has now been created around the original survey, and numerous other works have made use of the findings.

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