1. The project was funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and by 11 of the research councils that are members of the ESF—namely, those of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

2. On the topics of political participation, voting turnout, party identification and membership, membership of intermediary organizations, trust in institutions, support for democratic values and practices, and trust in politicians see Klingemann, Hans-Dieter and Fuchs, Dieter, eds., 1995, Citizens and the State, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

3. These changes are documented and analysed in Van Deth, Jan W. and Scarbrough, Elinor, eds., 1995, The Impact of Values, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar The volume focuses primarily on three major value orientations and their impact on mass politics: religious-secular; left-right materialism; and materialism-postmaterialism. It also considers the development and political impact of green politics, feminism, and postmodern values.

4. Mass attitudes about the welfare state, public services, and the role of the state are covered in Borre, Ole and Scarbrough, Elinor, eds., 1995, The Scope of Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

5. On this and other aspects of West European public opinion about organizations of internationalized governance, see Niedermayer, Oskar and Sinnott, Richard, eds., 1995, Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar

6. The final volume of the series, Beliefs in Government (Max Kaase and Kenneth Newton, 1995, Oxford: Oxford University Press), pulls together the rich and detailed findings of the other four volumes and sets them in a broad context of government and politics in Western democracies.