Contents -- Figures and tables -- Dedication -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: The cultural diversity of European unity: an introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The European Values Study as a research program -- 3 The plan of this book -- References -- PART ONE: EUROPEAN VALUES IN A BROAD PERSPECTIVE -- Intermezzo Godfried Danneels on individual autonomy: 'This extreme individualism and hedonism has no future' -- Chapter Two: Exploring Europe's basic values map -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exploring value dimensions in Europe: The 1999/2000 EVS -- 3 Comparing countries and generations in the 1999/2000 EVS -- 4 Trends in the two basic value dimensions: 1981-1990-1999 -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: The items included in the analyses -- Intermezzo Ruud Lubbers on European pride and presidents: 'A united Europe is an antidote to globalization' -- Chapter Three: Europe and its values in an historical perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The unity of European diversity -- 3 The diversity of European unity -- 4 Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Intermezzo Herman Wijffels on the vocation of Europe: 'We are giving birth to the organically ordered society' -- PART TWO: EUROPEAN VALUES IN DEPTH -- Chapter Four: Opening the black-box of regional culture. Entrepreneurial attitude and economic growth in 54 European regions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why would entrepreneurial culture matter? -- 3 Entrepreneurial characteristics -- 4 Empirical test -- 5 Implications and limitations -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Five: Participation in civil society and European regional economic growth -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Trust -- 3 Group membership -- 4 Empirical test -- 5 Data -- 6 Trust -- 7 Group membership -- 8 Economic data and testing -- 9 Implications, limitations and suggestions for further research -- References.

Chapter Six: Bridging and bonding social capital: Which type is good for economic growth? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 The model -- 4 The hypotheses -- 5 Measurement -- 6 Testing the model -- 7 Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Appendix: A static and a dynamic model -- Chapter Seven: Shall the twain ever meet? Differences and changes in socio-economic justice norms and beliefs in Eastern and Western Europe at the turn of the millennium -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research questions -- 3 Theoretical framework -- 4 Hypotheses -- 5 Data and operationalization -- 6 Models -- 7 Findings -- 8 Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Chapter Eight: Civil society, social trust and democratic involvement -- 1 More civil society, better citizens? -- 2 Measuring civil society, trust and democratic involvement -- 3 Nations -- 4 Individuals -- 5 Participation in civil society and generational change -- 6 Discussion -- References -- Appendix: Indicators (%) in 20 countries -- Chapter Nine: Missing links? Consensus democracy, voluntary association and European values -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Patterns of democracy and social capital: Lijphart, Putnam and the European Values Study -- 3 Missing Link I: Consensus democracy and voluntary association -- 4 Missing Link II: Consensus democracies, voluntary associations and cultural orientations -- 5 Discussion and conclusion: The values of European democracy -- References -- Chapter Ten: The welfare state: Villain or hero of the piece? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 'moral evil effects of the welfare state' debate -- 3 Hypotheses -- 4 Data and measurements -- 5 Analysis and results -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Eleven: Country differences in sex-role attitudes: Cultural and economic explanations -- 1 Background and research questions -- 2 Hypotheses -- 3 Data and measurement -- 4 Results.

5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Twelve: Cross-national differences in public consent to divorce: Effects of cultural, structural and compositional factors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory and hypotheses -- 3 Data, measurements, and method -- 4 Results -- 5 Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Chapter Thirteen: Religious and moral pluralism in contemporary Europe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical notions -- 3 Measurements and analytical strategy -- 4 Results -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- PART THREE: EUROPEAN VALUES IN REFLECTION -- Chapter Fourteen: Unity produces diversity: The economics of Europe's social capital -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Economics and social capital -- 3 European economics and values -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Fifteen: European identity and interreligious dialogue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A complicated relation -- 3 The contribution of Islam to European culture -- 4 Respect as a condition for interreligious dialogue -- 5 An in-depth dialogue -- 6 Diversity requires unity -- References -- Chapter Sixteen: One European world of welfare or many: The role of values, behavior and institutions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Comparative research into the welfare state -- 3 A conceptual framework -- 4 Results from socio-economic research -- 5 Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter Seventeen: European surrogate -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Analogy -- 3 Gap and churchyard -- 4 Surrogate -- References -- Chapter Eighteen: He who tears down also builds up. Literature and the debate on norms and values -- Chapter Nineteen: Europe: A question onto itself? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The European soul is a question onto itself -- 3 Answers that are no answers -- 4 One final question -- About the authors -- Author index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S.

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