A measure of how strongly the respondents value the voice of the people as a source of influence in their society, based on three items from Inglehart’s (1977) materialism/postmaterialism batteries. These items indicate whether respondents assign first, second, or no priority to the goals of (a) “protecting freedom of speech”, (b) “giving people more say in important government decisions”, and (c) “giving people more say about how things are done at their jobs and in their communities”.