Colombia

This study uses the material and post-material values described by Inglehart (in his book “The silent revolution, changing values and political styles among western publics”) and applies the methods developed by Schwartz (in his 1992 article “Universals in the content and structure of values: Theoretical advances and empirical tests in 20 countries”) to identify distinct dimensions of human values in the Mexican case. This paper focuses on materialist and post-materialist values, human values and their effect on instrumental and symbolic political participation. The analysis also investigates the implications of birth cohort on political participation and the impact of attachment to distinct values within generations on those two forms of political action. This suggests a change in the country’s democratic culture or at least a democratic political culture, which is distinctly larger than the one observed in the post-revolutionary era.