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Has there been a 'silent revolution' in Europe's advanced industrial democracies? In 1971 Ronald Inglehart identified a significant changing of social and political values in West European Countries. He signalled that 'A transformation may be taking place in the political cultures of advanced industrial societies' (Inglehart, 1971, p.991). This essay will analyse in what way these changes have taken place and how true Inglehart's theory is, with reference to some of Europe's advanced industrial democracies. Class divide within West European countries has in the past been a significant factor when individual voters have chose who to vote for, 'patterns of electoral alignment were overwhelmingly structured by the class cleavage' (Webb and Fisher, 1999, page 9), with working class votes generally going to leftist parties whereas bourgeoisie and upper class voters mostly opted for political parties who were more Conservative and defended capitalism. However the class system within post industrial West European countries...

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