caa a22 4500 388078987 CHVBK 20180307125207.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585581 doi S000305540021825X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585581 Measuring Postmaterialism [Elektronische Daten] This article responds to two critiques of the value change thesis in this issue. Davis and Davenport claim that the four-item index developed by Inglehart is invalid because respondents' first and second choices are randomly related and that it fails to predict respondents' positions on theoretically relevant social issues. We maintain that they make unwarranted assumptions about how responses to ipsative items should be related and demonstrate that the value indicators are powerful predictors. Clarke et al. argue that the trend toward postmaterialism does not result from long-term generational change but simply reflects declining inflation and rising unemployment over the past quarter-century. We show that period effects, particularly inflation, influence observed values. But after controlling for inflation, there is still a substantial shift toward postmaterialism. Moreover, rising unemployment partly offsets the effect of falling inflation. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Inglehart Ronald University of Michigan Abramson Paul R. Michigan State University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 665-677 0003-0554 93:3<665 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585581 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Inglehart Ronald University of Michigan NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abramson Paul R. Michigan State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 665-677 0003-0554 93:3<665 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge