10.2190/YYJN-PVBQ-CWYR-BA81 YYJNPVBQCWYRBA81 2 Trust in Natural Resource Information Sources and Postmaterialist Values: A Comparative Study of U.S. and Canadian Citizens in the Great Lakes Area 123 136 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 YYJNPVBQCWYRBA81.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=YYJNPVBQCWYRBA81 2 Brent S. Steel Nicholas P. Lovrich John C. Pierce Washington State University, Pullman Washington State University, Vancouver This study examines the relationship between postmaterialist value orientations and trust in natural resource information sources among Canadian and U.S. citizens. The data stem from mail surveys collected among residents in metropolitan areas on the Great Lakes. Findings suggest that individuals with <i>postmaterialist</i> value orientations are significantly less trusting of traditional sources of natural resource information (e.g., government and private industry) than are their compatriots with materialist value orientations. In addition, Canadians are found to be generally more trusting of government information sources and less trusting of private information sources than are their American counterparts. Thus, the trust accorded an information source depends on the source itself, the value orientation of the individual according that trust, and the political culture of the country in which the information source and the individual are found. D. Bell, <i>The Coming of Postindustrial Society</i>, Basic Books, New York, 1973. S. Huntington, Postindustrial Politics: How Benign Will it Be?, <i>Comparative Politics, 6</i>(January), pp. 163-191, 1974. R. Inglehart, <i>Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society</i>, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990. M. A. Steger, J. C. Pierce, B. S. Steel, and N. P. Lovrich, Political Culture, Postmaterialist Values, and the New Environmental Paradigm: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States, <i>Political Behavior, 11</i>, pp. 233-254, 1989. <i>Gallup Report</i>, Environment Regaining a Foothold on the National Agenda, Report No. 285, Princeton, New Jersey, June 1989. L. Milbrath, <i>Environmentalists: Vanguard for a New Society</i>, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1984. D. Nelkin, Science, Technology, and Political Conflict: Analyzing the Issues, in <i>Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions</i>, D. Nelkin (ed.), Sage, Beverly Hills, California, pp. 9-11, 1979a. D. Nelkin, Scientific Knowledge, Public Policy and Democracy: A Review Essay, <i>Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1</i>(September), pp. 106-122, 1979b. J. C. Peterson (ed.), <i>Citizen Participation in Science Policy</i>, The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1984. J. Kuklinski, D. Metlay, and W. D. Kay, Citizen Knowledge and Choices on the Complex Issue of Nuclear Energy, <i>American Journal of Political Science, 26</i>, pp. 615-642, 1982. J. C. Pierce, and N. P. Lovrich, <i>Water Resources, Democracy and the Technical Information Quandary</i>, Associated Faculty Press, New York, 1986. M. Clague, Citizen Participation in the Legislative Process, in <i>Citizen Participation: Canada</i>, J. A. Draper (ed.), New Press, Toronto, 1971. A. Wildavsky, <i>The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism</i>, The American University Press, Washington, D. C., 1991. S. R. Lichter, S. Rothman, and L. S. Lichter, <i>The Media Elite: America's New Powerbrokers</i>, Adler and Adler, Bethesda, Maryland, 1986. S. Iyengar and D. R. Kinder, <i>News That Matters: Television and American Opinion</i>, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987. B. Steel and D. Soden, Acid Rain Policy in Canada and the United States: Attitudes of Citizens, Environmental Activists, and Legislators, <i>The Social Science Journal, 26</i>, pp. 27-44, 1989. R. Gibbins and N. Nevitte, Canadian Political Ideology: A Comparative Analysis, <i>Canadian Journal of Political Science, 18</i>, pp. 577-598, 1985. G. Horowitz, Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation, <i>Canadian Journal of Public Policy, 32</i>, pp. 143-171, 1966. S. M. Lipset, Canada and the United States: The Cultural Dimension, in <i>Canada and the United States: Enduring Friendship, Persistent Stress</i>, C. Doran and J. Sigler (eds.), Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, pp. 109-160, 1985. K. Dolbeare and L. Medcalf, <i>American Ideologies Today</i>, Random House, New York, 1988. K. Dolbeare, <i>American Public Policy: A Citizen's Guide</i>, McGraw Hill, New York, 1982. H. McCloskey and J. Zaller, <i>The American Ethos: Public Attitudes Toward Capitalism and Democracy</i>, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1984. Pierce et al., 1992. D. A. Dillman, <i>Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method</i>, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1978. R. Inglehart, <i>The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics</i>, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1977. R. Inglehart, The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Postindustrial Societies, <i>American Political Science Review, 65</i>, pp. 991-1017, 1971. Inglehart and Flanagan, 1992. B. Steel, R. Warner, N. Lovrich, and J. C. Pierce, The Ingelhart-Flanagan Debate over Postmaterialist Values: Some Evidence from a Canadian-American Case Study, <i>Political Psychology, 13</i>, pp. 61-77, 1991. P. Mohai, Men, Women and the Environment: An Examination of the Gender Gap in Environmental Concern and Activism, <i>Society and Natural Resources</i>, 5:1, pp. 1-19, 1992.