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Informationen zum Autor Hanspeter Kriesi is Director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich. Simon Hug is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Université de Genève. Klappentext This book offers a uniquely detailed study of how citizens of a small open economy are affected in their value orientations over a twenty year period. Its contributions offer new ideas on how value change and its consequences may be studied on the basis of the wealth of information provided by the World Values Survey. Zusammenfassung This book offers a uniquely detailed study of how citizens of a small open economy are affected in their value orientations over a twenty year period. Its contributions offer new ideas on how value change and its consequences may be studied on the basis of the wealth of information provided by the World Values Survey. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part 1: The Swiss in the age of secularization and individualization Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Values and Value Change: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Patterns Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Changing Religiosity, Changing Politics? The Influence of Traditional and Post-Traditional Forms of Religiosity on Political Attitudes Chapter 5 Chapter 3: The Transformation of the Ideological Gender Gap in Switzerland Part 6 Part 2: The Swiss in the age of globalization Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Islamophobia in Switzerland: A New Phenomenon or a New Name for Xenophobia? Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Intolerance Begets Intolerance: Explaining Negative Attitudes towards Foreigners and Muslims in Switzerland, 1996-2007 Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Swiss Euroscepticism: Economically or Culturally determined? Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Integrating the Defence of Traditional Communities into the Libertarian-Authoritarian Divide: The Role of the Swiss People's Party in the Redefinition of Cultural Conflicts Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Restructuring Swiss Welfare Politics: Post-Industrial Labor Market, Globalization and Welfare Values Part 12 Part 3: The Swiss in the age of an alleged decline in social capital Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Why do the Swiss trust their government less and other people more than they used to? The impact of cohorts and periods on political confidence and interpersonal trust in Switzerland Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Benevolent Against the Odds? Volunteering Patterns in an Individualist Society Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Swiss Democracy in Crisis? An Analysis of Exit and Voice Chapter 16 Conclusion...
