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Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism - a New Book by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to liberal democracy.

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A new coding tool presented at the workshop organized by SERISS with the participation of the WVSA On February 14-15, 2019 the World Values Survey Association Secretariat contributed to the training workshop on coding, scales and classification for socioeconomic variables in cross-national surveys organized by the Synergies for Europe’s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) research project. The workshop featured presentation of the new online tool for the swift and precise identification of the respondent’s level of education and field of education, employment status, occupation and industry.

FIRST DATA AVAILABLE: Pre-release of the EVS-WVS 2017 data The first group of countries from the joint EVS-WVS data collection effort in Europe is available online now in public access. An aggregated file comprising national data for 16 countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Iceland, Croatia, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, and Belarus can be accessed via GESIS data archive.

Public Release: Dataset “WVS Wave 1 to 6 Key Aggregates” (time-pooled cross section) The World Values Survey Association is happy to release the Dataset “WVS Wave 1 to 6 Key Aggregates” (time-pooled cross section). The data-file is a collection of aggregated measures and indexes developed by the WVSA Vice-President Professor Christian Welzel. Values are calculated for all countries included into the WVS wave 1 to 6. All values are calculated at national level (country means and country aggregates).

Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index Report 2018 released this week Economist Intelligence Unit releases Democracy Index Report 2018. The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. WVSA is proud to have WVS public opinion poll data-base to be named as the main source of the empirical evidence for the report.

Season's Greetings from WVSA On behalf of the World Values Survey Association, we thank all members of the WVS community, our partners and friends for your constant support and wish you a great festive season!

WVS team in Bolivia releases the second issue of the report The second issue of the World Values Survey report for Bolivia is being released by the WVS team in Bolivia at Ciudadanía, Comunidad de Estudios Sociales y Acción Pública. The second issue of the report presents the main findings on the adolescent population surveyed.

WVS team in Greece releases analytical report based on WVS-7 survey findings Analytical report describing main findings of the WVS-7 in Greece is available now (in Greek). The survey took place in Fall 2017 and became the very first WVS survey completed in Greece. A sample if 1200 respondents has been interviewed under the leadership of the WVS-7 Principal Investigator for Greece Professor Sokratis Koniordos.

WVS team in Australia releases WVS-7 analytical report WVS team in Australia releases WVS-7 analytical report. The Australian component of the World Values Survey is referred to as the Australian Values Study or AVS. The Australian National University has been responsible for the AVS since 2005, with data collection carried out by the Social Research Centre. In 2018, 1,800 Australians were surveyed as a part of the WVS-7 global survey round.

The Rise of Trump and the Xenophobic Populist Parties: The Silent Revolution in Reverse - Lecture by Ron Inglehart at the University of Toronto Professor Ingleharts’ recently published book, Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World, argues that people’s values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. This book explains the rise of environmentalist parties, gender equality, and same-sex marriage... and the current reaction producing Trump, Brexit, and France’s National Front, through a new, empirically-tested version of modernization theory.

The World Values Survey and UNDP strengthen collaboration on SDG 16 indicators research Oslo, 18 June 2018 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Values Survey Association (WVSA) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to facilitate cooperation on measuring Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 indicators.

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