Materialist and postmaterialist values are indicated in the responses to the survey question, "Which of the following goals do you consider the most important for your country, over the next ten years?"
More say on the job
Less impersonal society
Ideas count more than money
More say in government
Freedom of speech
More beautiful cities
Fight rising prices
Strong defense forces
Economic growth
Maintain stable economy
Fight against crime
Maintain order
[Postmaterialist values in italics. Materialist values in bold.]

Source: Paul R. Abramson & Ronald Inglehart, Value Change in Global Perspective (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1995), pg. 128.

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