ABSTRACT
Post-materialism is a theory about value-orientations in today's societies. In order to be testable, this theory has to deliver propositions that may be put to the test of falsification. Basically, value-orientations, however composite or abstract they may be in a scientific theory, always refer back to data about citizen attitudes. How, then, do attitudinal data from, for example, the Word Value Survey 1999–2002, support the claim that post-materialist value-orientations exist and loom large in present-day societies?
