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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One. America the traditional /Wayne E. Baker -- Chapter Two. Cleavages, value gaps and regime support: Evidence from Canada and 26other societies /Neil Nevitte and Mebs Kanji -- Chapter Three. Value change in Mexico, 1980–2000: Evidence From the world values surveys /Miguel Basáñez and Alejandro Moreno -- Chapter Four. Cultural trends in Argentina: 1983–2000 /Marita Carballo -- Chapter Five. Changing swedish civic orientations: From Solidarity to activism? -- Chapter Six. Denmark: Solid or fluid? /Peter Gundelach -- Chapter Seven. What happened to dutch values? Investigating general and differential trends in values in The Netherlands /Loek Halman and Ruud Luijkx -- Chapter Eight. Civic values and value change in Austria and Germany /Franziska Deutsch , Christian Welzel and Julian Wucherpfennig -- Chapter Nine. French values: Between southern and northern Europe /Pierre Bréchon -- Chapter Ten. Values and generations in Spain /Juan Díez-Nicolás -- Chapter Eleven. Islam, gender, democracy and values: The case of Turkey, 1990–2001 -- Chapter Twelve. Value change and democratization in South Korea /Soo Young Auh -- Chapter Thirteen. The constant of transformation: Eleven Years of value change in South Africa, 1990–2001 /Hennie Kotze -- References -- Index.

Based on the data from the European and World Values Studies, this volume discusses basic theoretical and methodological issues of value research and focuses on some of the most basic processes of value change: cultural globalization, individualization, secularization and democratization

The Turkish party system has undergone significant changes since the 1940s, moving from a two-party system to one encompassing nineteen parties— and resulting in a highly fragmented parliament. The contributors to this volume assess the intertwined effects of party fragmentation and voter volatility in Turkey. Presenting a wealth of data, they illuminate the trajectory of democratic consolidation, as well as underlying issues of representation, participation, and governability