Books in the Beliefs in Government series

A decline in religious belief, waning class values, rising postmaterialism, along with Green values, postmodernism and feminism, indicate a profound and widespread change in western values. This volume tracks these changes and analyses their impact on political efficacy, interest, activity, trust, voting and involvement in new social movements.

This concise overview volume pulls together the empirical findings of the Beliefs in Government series and sets them in the broad context of mass politics in modern Europe. Its conclusions about political participation, mass political opinion, postmaterialism and postmodernism, and democratic change and stability break new ground in political science.

This is the first comprehensive examination of all aspects of attitudes to European integration and other forms of internationalized governance in Europe. The study, a key volume in the highly regarded and widely cited Beliefs in Government series, explores the development of these attitudes over time and deals thoretically and empirically with the broad range of factors affecting them.

Long-term survey data reveal persistently high levels of support across Western Europe for the public provision of welfare and social security services. This volume, in the highly regarded and widely cited Beliefs in Government series, reaches surprising conclusions about theories of ungovernability, overload, the welfare state backlash, and tax revolt.

Fears that representative democracy in western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between citizens and the state. This change poses a democratic transformation in the countries of Western Europe.

Fears that representative democracy in Western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence from this volume in the highly regarded and widely cited Beliefs in Government series suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between governments and citizens.