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Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2020 data-set release The World Values Survey Association (WVSA) and the European Values Study (EVS) are happy to announce the release of the official joint EVS-WVS 2017-2020 data-set. Fieldwork for this survey round was conducted from early 2017 to mid-2020. The joint data-set covers 79 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Albania, Australia and Argentina to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. In total, over 127 358 respondents were interviewed so far for this joint EVS-WVS wave.

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Pandemic, Governance, and Comparative Public Opinion Research - WAPOR-GBS webinar with the participation of WVSA members On behalf of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) and the Global Barometer Survey (GBS) we are delighted to invite you to attend the joint WAPOR-GBS webinar that will take place on November 20 (Friday) at 13:00-15:00 GMT (08:00 to 10:00 EST). The theme of the webinar is “Pandemic, Governance, and Comparative Public Opinion Research”. Participation is free of charge; registration is required.

WVSA participates in the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia” On 16-17 October the OSCE Academy and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-organized Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia.” Regional and international experts discussed to what extent institutional changes and shifts from autocratic to democratic systems have been accompanied by a shift of democratic and human rights values and how - so-called - traditional values in post-soviet Central Asia contradict or complement modern emancipatory norms.

Pippa Norris contributes to the UN Women Expert Group Meeting Member of the WVSA Executive Committee and Professor at Harvard University Pippa Norris contributed a background paper to the UN Women Expert Group Meeting "Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls’"

A Cultural Theory of Autocracy-vs-Democracy - Online lecture by Christian Welzel The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (World Values Survey-Russia) at National Research University – Higher School of Economics held its next regular seminar on October 1 where the Vice-President of the WVSA Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) delivered a report “A Cultural Theory of Autocracy-vs-Democracy”.

How Trump Solved the COVID-19 Pandemic On accepting the Republican nomination for re-election on August 27, 2020 President Trump boasted that “The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country in the world.” The claim was misleading. Case fatality rates measure how many people known to have gotten COVID-19 eventually die of it, and by that measure the U.S. ranked 11th among the 20 countries most affected by the disease. Trump had picked a statistic that reflects the quality of the U.S. health care system: Americans who got infected were likely to recover. But the claim was grossly misleading because it ignored the fact that under Trump’s presidency, Americans were vastly more likely to get infected than the citizens of most other countries. As he was speaking, the U.S. had the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths of any country in the world—by a wide margin.

Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion A new article by Ronald Inglehart, Professor at the University of Michigan and WVSA's Founder and President (1981-2013), in the September/October 2020 issue of the Foreign Affairs.

EVS-WVS Operational meeting The representatives of the EVS and WVS secretariats and data archives met on Friday 14 August 2020 to agree on the workflows, procedures and standards for data archiving and data release of the joint EVS-WVS core dataset. The jointly release of the EVS-WVS dataset, prepared according to the agreed standards, is expected in October 2020.

WVSA Executive Committee Meeting 2020 The WVSA's Executive Committee held its annual meeting in electronic format on May 6. A number of important issues were discussed, including WVS-7 survey fieldwork schedule and response to the delays in survey completion caused by COVID-19; WVS-7 data release; WVSA General Assembly in 2021; improvements into the WVS-7 data cleaning procedures and survey wave deliverables; first plans for the WVS-8 survey round.

Call for papers: Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018) Call for papers for a special issue "Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018)" of “Quaderni di Sociologia” journal. Abstracts due June 30, 2020.

Values in a Crisis Survey: Invitation for Participation An international team of scholars under the leadership of the WVSA Vice-President Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (Leuphana University Luneburg) is organizing a 3-wave "Values in Crisis" survey. The survey aims to study people' values now during the corona-pandemic (wave 1), shortly after the pandemic ceases (wave 2) and in approximately 1 year from now (wave 3). Self-administered 20-minutes online questionnaire is the main instrument. The survey will take place in Germany and the UK, and the team is looking for academic groups and public opinion research institutes who might be interested to expanding the study to their countries.

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PRESIDENT

Christian Haerpfer

c.w.haerpfer@gmail.com

WVSA President

University of Vienna

Institute of Political Science

Vienna 1010, Austria

SECRETARIAT
(WVSA Headquarters)

Kseniya Kizilova

wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com

Head of WVSA Secretariat

Institute for Comparative

Survey Research

Vienna 1040, Austria

LEGAL SEAT

Bi Puranen

bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

Secretary-General

Institute for Future Studies

Stockholm, Sweden 101 31

DATA ARCHIVE

Jaime Diez-Medrano

jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

Director of the WVSA Archive

Pza Manuel Rodrigo 1, B-1E

Madrid, Spain 28043

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