Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Ruud de Moor -- Preface / Ruud de Moor -- Chapter One Religion in Europe and North America / Karel Dobbelaere -- Chapter Two Religion and Moral Values: The Case of Euthanasia / Ruud de Moor -- Chapter Three Political Culture 1960-1990 / Felix Heunks and Frans Hikspoors -- Chapter Four National Dissatisfaction and Distrust in Europe: The Case of Switzerland / Anna Melich -- Chapter Five North American Value Change and Integration: Lessons from Western Europe? / Neil Nevitte and Ronald Inglehart -- Chapter Six Identifications of Norwegians with Europe: The Impact of Values and Centre-Periphery Factors / Beate Huseby and Ola Listhaug -- Chapter Seven The Impact of Modernization and Value Change on Confidence in Institutions / Ola Listhaug -- Chapter Eight Analysis of Regional Differences in the Values of Europeans / Renzo Gubert -- Chapter Nine Changing Work Values in Europe and North America. Continents and Occupations Compared / Harry Zanders and Stephen Harding -- Chapter Ten Living Arrangements and Parenthood: Do Values matter? / Ron Lesthaeghe and Guy Moors -- Chapter Eleven Fertility and Values in 15 Western Countries during the 1980s / John Simons -- Chapter Twelve Generations and Value Change / Henk A. Becker -- Chapter Thirteen Individualization and Value Fragmentation / Loek Halman and Thorleif Pettersson -- Subject Index / Editor: Ruud de Moor -- About the Authors / Editor: Ruud de Moor.

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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