Foreword: pushing the envelope: analyzing the impact of values Marita R. Inglehart; 1. Political culture and value change Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel; Part I. Changing Values: 2. Value change over a third of a century: the evidence for generational replacement Paul R. Abramson; 3. The decline of deference revisited: evidence after twenty-five years Neil Nevitte; 4. Enlightening people: the spark of emancipative values Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno; Part II. Changing Images of Government: 5. Reassessing the civic-culture model Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin; 6. Dissatisfied democrats: democratic maturation in old and new democracies Hans-Dieter Klingemann; 7. Support for democracy in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia Christian Haerpfer and Kseniya Kizilova; Part III. The Impact of Cultural Change: 8. The structure and sources of global environmental attitudes Robert Rohrschneider, Matt Miles and Mark Peffley; 9. Social change and the politics of protest Tor Georg Jakobsen and Ola Listhaug; 10. Mecca or oil?: why Arab states lag in gender equality Pippa Norris; 11. Allegiance eroding: people's dwindling willingness to fight in wars Bi Puranen; 12. From allegiant to assertive citizens Christian Welzel and Russell J. Dalton.