Journal Title
Title of Journal: Polit Behav
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Abbravation: Political Behavior
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Authors: Shalom H Schwartz Gian Vittorio Caprara Michele Vecchione Paul Bain Gabriel Bianchi Maria Giovanna Caprara Jan Cieciuch Hasan Kirmanoglu Cem Baslevent JanErik Lönnqvist Catalin Mamali Jorge Manzi Vassilis Pavlopoulos Tetyana Posnova Harald Schoen Jo Silvester Carmen Tabernero Claudio Torres Markku Verkasalo Eva Vondráková Christian Welzel Zbigniew Zaleski
Publish Date: 2013/09/19
Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 899-930
Abstract
Do the political values of the general public form a coherent system What might be the source of coherence We view political values as expressions in the political domain of more basic personal values Basic personal values eg security achievement benevolence hedonism are organized on a circular continuum that reflects their conflicting and compatible motivations We theorize that this circular motivational structure also gives coherence to political values We assess this theorizing with data from 15 countries using eight core political values eg free enterprise law and order and ten basic personal values We specify the underlying basic values expected to promote or oppose each political value We offer different hypotheses for the 12 noncommunist and three postcommunist countries studied where the political context suggests different meanings of a basic or political value Correlation and regression analyses support almost all hypotheses Moreover basic values account for substantially more variance in political values than age gender education and income Multidimensional scaling analyses demonstrate graphically how the circular motivational continuum of basic personal values structures relations among core political values This study strengthens the assumption that individual differences in basic personal values play a critical role in political thought
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