Partisan Dealignment and the Blue-Collar Electorate in France by Sally Marthaler

Author:Sally Marthaler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030354657
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

5.2 Materialism and Postmaterialism in France

Abramson and Inglehart (1992: 227) predicted that “By 2010, postmaterialists are likely to outnumber materialists”. The first hypothesis to be tested relates to this prediction in addressing the question of the strength and stability of levels of materialism and postmaterialism in the French electorate. Specifically, we would expect there to be a progressive increase in the proportion of the electorate with postmaterialist values (Hypothesis 5.1). To test this hypothesis, I draw on the forced-choice four-item question on postmaterialist values in the European Values Study (EVS),1 which is used to construct an index of (post)materialist values. The question asks respondents to choose two of four goals which they think should be prioritised in their country over the next ten years. Two of these items are categorised as materialist (maintaining order in the nation and fighting rising prices) and two as postmaterialist (giving people more say in important government decisions and protecting freedom of speech). Respondents who select two goals in the same category are coded as being ‘pure’ materialists or ‘pure’ postmaterialists and otherwise as belonging to a ‘mixed’ type.

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