ABSTRACT
Can authoritarianism/libertarianism be explained by class or economic background, as the theories formulated by Lipset, Kohn, and Inglehart suggest? This is the question this book started wi th . It should be clear to the reader by now that the answer cannot be affirmative. A n d has voting behavior indeed become less and less dependent on class in recent years? This second question addressed in this book can be answered affirma tively, although the decline in class voting has been less dramatic than typ ically assumed.
