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Budapest 2004

World Values Survey Conference Budapest, Hungary, September 2nd-5th, 2004.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd - Collegium Budapest
10.30-12.00 General assembly
Chair: Bernard Lategan
Nominator: Hans-Dieter Klingemann

Background:
Organizational structure, dissemination and preparations for the 2005 wave.
Election of officers
14.00-17.00 Opening session
Chair: Bi Puranen, Secretary, WVSA
Welcome, Fred Girod, Collegium Budapest

• Ronald Inglehart, President of the WVSA
  "The past, Present and Future of World Values Surveys"

• Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
  "Bringing the Gospel to the East"

• Yilmaz Esmer, Bogazici University, Istanbul
  "UN and WVS"
17.00 Reception at the Collegium Budapest
19.00 Dinner at the Danube

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd - Central European University
09.00-12.00 The EU-Enlargement Process
including
coffee break 		Convenor: Juan Díez-Nicolás
Chair: Renata Simienska
Discussant: Christian Welzel

• Juan Díez-Medrano, Barcelona University, Madrid, Spain
  The puzzle of European Union Enlargement:
  "Hypotheses and research agenda"

• Loek Halman, Tiburg University, Le Tilburg, Netherlands
  "Religious beliefs and practices in contemporary Europe"

• Ola Listhaug, University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
  "Norway: An European outlier"

• Yilmaz Esmer, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
  "The European Union: A Christian club or a multicultural partnership?"

• Gabor Toka, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
  "East-West value differences inside the union and the legacy of communism"
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Values, Democracy and development in the Islamic World
Convenor: Thorleif Pettersson
Chair: Faroc Tanwir
Discussant: Yilmaz Esmer

• Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, U.S.A.
  "The determinants of attitudes toward democracy: The cases of Iran and Saudi Arabia"

• Sandeep Shastri, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
  "A value clash between Hinduism and Islam?"

• Gaspar Munishi, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  "Islamic-Christian value clashes in religiously divided countries/Tanzania?"

• Fares Al-Braizat, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
  "The role of education in Islamic countries."
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.30 Is Democracy Failing in Latin America?
Convenor: Juan Díez-Nicolás
Chair: Rafael Pardo
Discussant: Ronald Inglehart

• Marta Lagos, Corporación Latinobarómetro, Santiago, Chile.

• Alejandro Moreno, Intituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico.

• John Sudarsky, Bogota, Colombia.

• José Molina, Zulia University, Maraciabo, Venezuela.

• Jorge Benítez, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
19.00 Dinner at Mokka Café & Restaurant

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4th - Collegium Budapest
09.00-11.00 Understanding Cultural Change
Convenor: Ronald Inglehart
Chair: Seiko Yamazaki
Discussant: Juan Díez-Nicolás

• Neil Nevitte, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (with Mebs Kanji)
  "Value diversity and political support".

• Thorleif Pettersson, Center for Inter-ethnic Studies, Uppsala, Sweden
  "A third way in values research? A comparative analysis of the approaches of Ronald Inglehart and Shalom Schwartz"

• Chris Welzel, International University of Bremen, Germany
  "Changes in collective action as a matter of value change?"

• Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
  "Multiple Dimensions of Cultural Change"
11.00-11.15 Closing the conference
11.30-18.00 Excursion
19.00 Dinner at Nancsi Neni

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 5th
Departure

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