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Ronald Inglehart’s ‘value change’ theory states that as countries develop and meet the material needs of their citizens, the views of their voters should increasingly come to be shaped by ‘postmaterial’ concerns. Using manifesto data from 1990 to 2019,
Federico Trastulli
tests whether this principle also holds for the platforms of political parties. He finds that with the exception of green parties, western European parties still place substantially more emphasis on material issues in their manifestos.
One of the many contributions of Ronald Inglehart, who passed away on 8 May, was the theory of ‘value change’. This posits that as advanced industrial societies increasingly meet the material needs of their citizens, the values, attitudes, and political opinions of these citizens will come to be shaped more prominently by non-material questions.
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10 Questions With… Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto
January 11, 2021
“Our shared experience contributes to create this synchronicity that is expressed through the dialectics,” say Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto, who are at the helm of their Milan-based studio Studiopepe since 2006. “Being in discordance is also a creative process, which means exchanging different point of views, […] perceptions and ideas.”
From an early age, Lelli Mami and Di Pinto (shown at left; portrait photography by Andrea Ferrari) have both been fascinated by colors and shapes. The duo met while studying at Politecnico di Milano the largest technical university in Italy and soon realized they shared the same vision, which led to a partnership “based on creativity and curiosity,” according to Di Pinto. “We know each other since many years and we have a kind of shared ‘alphabet’ of inspirations that is very useful, she adds.
Scott Baker, Aniket Baksy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Jonathan Rodden 22 December 2020
Elections can cause economic uncertainty, especially when elections take place in a politically polarised context. This column studies how national election cycles in 23 countries influence economic policy uncertainty, as measured by the share of newspaper articles that discusses uncertainty and economic policy. Economic policy uncertainty clearly rises in the months leading up to national elections. Average economic policy uncertainty values are 13% higher in the month before and the month of national elections than in other months during the same election cycle. In the US, economic policy uncertainty increases are especially pronounced around close and highly polarised presidential elections.