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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).

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A new publication by Ron Inglehart: The Silent Revolution in Reverse - Trump and the Xenophobic Authoritarian Populist Parties More than forty years ago, The Silent Revolution (Inglehart, 1977) argued that the unprecedentedly high levels of existential security experienced in developed democracies during the postwar decades was bringing an intergenerational shift from Materialist values that emphasized economic and physical security above all, to Postmaterialist values that gave to priority to individual autonomy and self-expression. During the past three decades, a growing share of the publics of high-income countries has experienced declining real income and job security, in context with a large flow of immigrants. This has fueled support for xenophobic populist authoritarian movements such as British exit from the European Union, France’s National Front and Donald Trump’s rise to power.

WVSA Featured Panel at the ECPR general conference at the University of Hamburg this week! Featured panel co-sponsored by the WVSA and IPSA RC17 "Comparative Public Opinion" will take place this week at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in Hamburg. The panel is devoted to the "Political Values and Norms Shaping Political Behaviour: Evidence from Comparative Social Research".

A New Book by the WVSA Vice-President Alejandro Moreno: The electoral change. Voters, surveys and democracy in Mexico In this work, the electoral behavior of Mexican citizens from 1988 to the present is analyzed in detail. The author resorts to surveys as research tools, through his interpretation, he gives an account of the psychology, rationality and emotions of the voter, in his behavior, his opinions, his attitudes, his beliefs and in the aspects that influence in his decision to vote. Likewise, it is studying the change in the Mexican electorate over the years, where factors such as the level of schooling, ideologization, the media, the Internet, social networks, have transformed the way of doing politics in the country.

WVS-Bolivia team releases WVS-7 analytical report! The team of Ciudadania-Bolivia - the first WVS team to complete WVS-7 survey fieldwork (January 2017) has launched the full analytical report containing the survey findings and outputs. Public launch of the report took place on June, 26. The survey was designed, implemented and analyzed by Ciudadanía, Comunidad de Estudios Sociales y Acción Pública, a local private research and social action center, with the support of Oxfam in Bolivia, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the commitment of the Vice Presidency of the State of Bolivia, through the editorial contribution of the Center for Social Research.

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.

Nigeria: First in Africa! WVS-7 completed in the first African country! World Values Survey round 7 has been completed in the first country on the African continent – in Nigeria. The survey was conducted in December 2017 – January 2018 and was organized by Professor Bi Puranen from the side of the WVSA. WVS-7 fieldwork in Nigeria was conducted by TNSRMS Nigeria Limited; survey fieldwork was coordinated by Mariam Fagbemi; a total of 1237 interviews have been completed in Nigeria.

Scientific workshop "The World Values Survey (1981-2018): Exploring the Cultural Change. Organization, History, Findings" in Astana, Kazakhstan Scientific workshop "The World Values Survey (1981-2018): Exploring the Cultural Change. Organization, History, Findings" took place in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2018. The workshop was organized by Dr Botagoz Rakisheva, WVS-7 PI for Kazakhstan, and featured presentations of the WVSA President Christian Haerpfer and Head of the WVSA Secretariat Kseniya Kizilova. The workshop attracted several dozen scientists, researchers, policymakers and scholars in Kazakhstan.

WVSA releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region" (2012-2014) The World Values Survey Association releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region". Report is based on the WVS (2012-2014) survey data collected in 12 countries and societies in the Middle East. Project has been implemented with the support of Silatech Foundation (Qatar) and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). WVS wave 7 begins in the Middle East in Summer 2018.

AVAILABLE NOW: a new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution" A new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World" (2018). The book presents the evolutionary modernization theory, a new interpretation of what drives political and social change. It tests the implications of this theory against survey data from over 100 countries, surveyed from 1981 to 2014. The book presents the findings in discussions based on graphs rather than using equations and statistical tables.
Click on this link to learn more: www.cambridge.org/9781108489317

WVS-7 in Kazakhstan: Working meeting with the WVSA Secretariat WVS-7 planning working meeting with the team of the Public Opinion Research Institute under the leadership of its Founding Director and the new WVS-7 Principal Investigator for Kazakhstan Dr Botagoz Rakisheva took place on May, 28, 2018. WVS round 7 will begin in Kazakhstan in June 2018.

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