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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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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.

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.

Annual Meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association The annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association took place on August, 31, 2018 in Boston, USA in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Political Science Association. Main issues discussed: program of WVS-7 survey round; new funding applications to support survey fieldwork in Africa and Asia; future activities and events and the 2020 public data release.

WVSA Featured Panel at the ECPR general conference at the University of Hamburg took place on August, 23! World Values Survey Association organized a featured panel at the recent General Conference (Hamburg, Germany, August 22-25, 2018) of the European Consortium for Political Research entitled “Political Values and Norms Shaping Political Behaviour: Evidence from Comparative Social Research”. Panel was co-sponsored by the Research Committee 17 “Comparative Public Opinion” of the International Political Science Association. Speakers' presentations available for downloading now.

WVSA completes a joint research project with the World Bank In July 2018 WVSA has completed a research project in the Middle East in cooperation with the World Bank. Within the framework of this project, WVSA team developed and implemented a module of questions exploring the issues of social contract; the module was introduced into the WVS-7 survey fieldwork in 4 MENA countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. WVSA expects to continue the study of social contract in other countries in the Middle East in 2018-2019. WVS-7 fieldwork will be completed in December 2019; over 10 MENA countries are expected to join WVS wave 7.

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.

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