caa a22 4500 388078464 CHVBK 20180307125205.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585579 doi S0003055400218236 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585579 The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence [Elektronische Daten] The Euro-Barometer values battery has provided much of the empirical evidence for the thesis that a shift from materialist to postmaterialist values has occurred in advanced industrial societies over the past two decades. It has been argued, however, that this widely used instrument is seriously flawed because of its sensitivity to current economic conditions. We present data from experiments in Canada and Germany that tested the performance of the values battery in an era of joblessness. Analyses reveal that (1) substituting an unemployment statement for the standard inflation statement in the battery has major consequences for the classification of respondents as materialist or postmaterialist and (2) answers to the battery are conditioned by the interaction between its content and respondents' economic issue concerns. These findings support the argument that much of the shift from materialist to postmaterialist values recorded by the Euro-Barometer since the early 1980s is a measurement artifact. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Clarke Harold D. University of North Texas Kornberg Allan Duke University McIntyre Chris Endicott College Bauer-Kaase Petra Wissenschaftszentrum Kaase Max Wissenschaftszentrum American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 637-647 0003-0554 93:3<637 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585579 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585579 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clarke Harold D. University of North Texas NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kornberg Allan Duke University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McIntyre Chris Endicott College NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bauer-Kaase Petra Wissenschaftszentrum NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kaase Max Wissenschaftszentrum NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 637-647 0003-0554 93:3<637 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge