Basic personal values and the meaning of left‐right political orientations in 20 countries.
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Q2. How much of the variance in political orientation was accounted for by values alone?
The socio-demographic variables alone accounted for an average of 6% of the variance in political orientation in the liberal countries.
Q3. What country did values explain more variance than socio-demographic variables?
In theliberal countries, values explained nearly twice as much variance in political orientation as socio-demographic variables did; in the post-communist countries values explained less than a third of the variance socio-demographic variables did with the exception of the Czech Republic.
Q4. In what countries did right self-placement covarate positively with tradition values?
In the post-communist countries, right self-placement covaried positively though notstrongly with tradition values in three of four countries.
Q5. What countries predicted political orientation better than values?
In sum, as hypothesized, values predicted political orientation more strongly thansocio-demographic variables in liberal countries but socio-demographic variables predicted more strongly in three of four post-communist countries.
Q6. What are the main reasons for the conflict in European liberal democracies?
The conflict in European liberal democracies between supporters of conservation and maintenance of the hierarchical social order and supporters of welfare and equality reflect these motivations.
Q7. What is the meaning of basic personal values in the liberal countries?
Basic personal values have indeed assumed a more important role than social structuralposition as determinants of political orientations in the liberal countries.