… In “The Silent Revolution in Reverse: Trump and the Xenophobic Authoritarian Populist Parties,” Inglehart, Jon Miller and Logan Woods provide fresh insight on a subject to which Inglehart, at times writing with Pippa Norris of Harvard, has devoted much of his career: the ongoing tension between materialist and post-materialist values and the political consequences of that tension.
The core of the Inglehart thesis is that scarce resources lead to “materialist” values, while abundant resources are conducive to “post-materialist” values. CONT.
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times