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Call for papers: WVSA at IPSA 2018 World Values Survey Association invites WVS members, partners and independent scholars to join WVS panels at the forthcoming IPSA-2018 congress. The 25th annual congress of the International Political Science Association will take place on July, 21-25, 2018 in Brisbane, Australia (http://wc2018.ipsa.org/). WVSA panels are organized with the support of IPSA Research Committee 17 “Comparative Public Opinion”.

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Call for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the World Values Survey Brazil! The WVS-Brazil team invites a Post-Doctoral Researcher to join the Graduate Program of Political Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil for a 12-month period to participate in organization of the WVS-7 survey in Brazil.
Application deadline: October, 15, 2017
Fellowship dates: March, 2018-February, 2019

Festive Launch of the WVS-7 in Brazil! On October, the 24th, will take place the Launch Conference of the WVS-7 survey in Brazil with the simultaneous participation of WVS' members of different teams around the world. Scholars will have the opportunity to discuss academic research with the use of WVS data in the first half of the Conference and, the second half will be dedicated to methodological discussions and challenges of the development of WVS' survey. The Conference will be broadcasted (the link will be informed soon).

New V-Drm working paper by WVSA Vice-President Chris Welzel! V-Dem Users' Working Paper #11: "A Tale of Culture-Bound Regime Evolution: The Centennial Democratic Trend and Its Recent Reversal" by WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel. Using a new measure of “comprehensive democracy” derived from V-Dem, this analysis traces the global democratic trend over the last 116 years, from 1900 till 2016, looking in particular at the centennial trend’s cultural zoning.

New Job Openings at Leuphana University Lüneburg Leuphana University Lüneburg – Foundation of Public Law – offers positions at the School of Cultural Sciences in the Department of Political Science/Center for the Study of Democracy starting on January 1st 2018 as a:

1. Research Associate EG 13 TV-L at 65% part time level;
2. Research Associate PostDoc-Level EG 13 TV-L;
3. Two student assistants (m/w) with a Bachelor-degree

to work on the DFG-funded Reinhart Koselleck-Project “The Cool Water Effect: Why Human Civilization Turned towards Emancipation in Cold-Wet Regions”.

Call for Papers for the WVSA/IPSA-2018 panel on Latin American Politics WVSA invites paper submissions into the thematic panel "¿Adónde ván? Change and continuity of political values and attitudes in Latin America" for the forthcoming 25th World Congress of Political Science organized by the International Political Science Association on July, 21-15, 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.

Call for Papers for the WVSA/ IPSA-2018 panel on Middle East WVSA invites paper submissions into the thematic panel "Social and Political Changes in the Middle East: New Approaches and Perspectives for the Long-Term Peace and Prosperity" for the forthcoming 25th World Congress of Political Science organized by the International Political Science Association on July, 21-15, 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.

Join us in round 7! World Values Survey Association invites new research teams to join the WVS-network in round 7 of the WVS program. WVSA network includes over 300 research institutions, organizations, universities and teams across the globe. In wave 7 we continue expanding our coverage and invite scholars and teams interested in cooperation with the WVSA to consider joining the program and undertaking the WVS7 survey in your country.

Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union - a new book based on WVS data! Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union by Birol A. Yeşilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu

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WVSA thematic panels at WAPOR-2017 conference in Lisbon The World Values Survey Association is organizing two thematic panels at the WAPOR conference, and invites all interested scholars to join exciting discussions on population values, norms and beliefs and their role for social and political development of contemporary societies!

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