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Postmaterialism, religiosity and ethnocentrism: Interactive effects on political preferences

Todosijević Bojan (Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, Belgrade)
Mijić Emilija (Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, Belgrade)
Hristić Ljubomir (Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, Belgrade)

Relationships between value orientations and political attitudes are usually analyzed as linear and additive associations. Since values are commonly conceived as lacking independence of each other, particularly in politics where they usually appear in the shape of ‘ideological packages’, the paper examines how values interact when generating their political effects. We investigate the interactive effects between postmaterialism, religiosity and ethnocentrism when they are required to explain ideological and party preferences. The outlined problems are examined using the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES) data. Results show that political expression of some values (e.g., ethnocentrism) is dependent on the level of the other values (e.g., postmaterialism).

Keywords: values, political attitude, ethnocentrism, religion, postmaterialism

Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. III 47010