Reading path

Outside the United States

12 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

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Institutional trust outside the United States
Chapter 6.5 in Part VI, Trust, science and democracy
Are partisan or ideological gaps in institutional confidence widening in other democracies?
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Support for democracy
Chapter 6.7 in Part VI, Trust, science and democracy
In a fixed set of 39 countries, approval of a strong leader rose by 9.9 points and approval of army rule by 7.6 points between 1995 to 1998 and 2017 to 2023 while support for a democratic system changed by +1.2 points, an average of countries whose survey program stayed the same (−2.8 points) and countries whose program switched (+3.5 points).
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Left and right across countries
Chapter 7.4 in Part VII, What left and right mean
The attitude that left-right self-placement follows most closely differs by country, and across countries the median correlations with economic attitudes, moral attitudes and the importance of God lie between +0.07 and +0.09.
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Non-placement on the left-right scale
Chapter 7.5 in Part VII, What left and right mean
Who declines to place themselves on the left-right scale, and where?
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Education and ideology
Chapter 7.6 in Part VII, What left and right mean
Is the link between ideology and political action stronger among the educated?
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Basic values and left-right
Chapter 8.1 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
People who rate universalism higher place themselves further left in all 18 Western European countries (mean correlation −0.19), but by the 95% interval values sit on their predicted sides of left-right in 4 of 18 post-communist countries and on the opposite sides in 4.
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Countries in value space
Chapter 8.2 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
Where do countries sit on traditional-secular and survival-self-expression values, and how have they moved?
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The silent revolution
Chapter 8.3 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
Are younger birth cohorts more emancipative, and has the shift stalled?
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The obedience-autonomy disposition
Chapter 8.4 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
Valuing obedience over autonomy in children tracks left-right placement weakly (median correlation +0.04 across 103 countries), while in the United States its correlation with party identification rose from −0.04 in 1992 to +0.28 in 2024, except among Black respondents.
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Order, security and threat
Chapter 8.5 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
Do security values and threat perceptions lean right, and where?
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National pride and grievance
Chapter 8.6 in Part VIII, Values beneath politics
Do national pride and national grievance relate to nativism in the same way?
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Secularization in Europe
Chapter 9.4 in Part IX, Religion and morality
Do two independent surveys agree on where European religious attendance fell?
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