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Changes in political values among the mass publics of advanced industrial societies have been a matter of great interest to many social scientists in recent decades. One precise statement of the amount and the direction of this type of change is Ronald Inglehart's (1971, 1977) theory of the Silent Revolution, which reduces Abraham Maslow's need hierarchy to two key hypotheses. First, Inglehart assumes that individuals' priorities reflect their socioeconomic environment: the highest subjective value is placed on those things that are in relatively short supply. Second, he assumes that individuals' values reflect conditions during their pre-adult years (Inglehart, 1979:145). Because of unprecedented levels of prosperity in most western countries, the satisfaction of safety and sustenance needs will be taken for granted by the generations born after World War II. Instead, these young people will stress the needs for love, esteem, and self-actualization while the older elements of the population remain predominantly oriented towards the satisfaction of safety and sustenance needs. So the rise of new generations and the decline and disappearance of old ones indicate a change in the distribution of value orienta tions of mass publics. According to Inglehart, this shift is the main source of the changes in the modes of political participation, the nature of the issues, and the decline in support for authority observed in many advanced inustrial societies since the 1960s.
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