The ongoing 8th wave of the WVS, launched in 2024, addresses global issues such as political trust, climate change, and social tolerance, while also contributing to the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers are invited to join as Principal Investigators, particularly in underrepresented regions like Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, and the Middle East. PIs will play a key role in overseeing national surveys, raising funds, and ensuring methodological standards, with the opportunity to access data early and include up to 40 country-specific questions. This is an invaluable chance to shape global discourse and contribute to a deeper understanding of societal values in diverse regions.

"Navigating values under pressure" conference is organized by EVS in collaboration with the World Values Survey Association and the European Social Survey at GESIS in Cologne on 8.11.24. The call for abstracts is open! Submit proposal by 15/09/2024!

The Ronald F. Inglehart Best Book Award on Political Culture and Values is awarded for a book which makes a substantial and original contribution to theory and/or empirical studies in comparative cross-cultural research. The winner of the 2023 award, Prof. Pippa Norris for her book "In Praise of Skepticism: Trust by Verify" will give a lecture on "The Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding" on June 17.

The Ronald F. Inglehart Best Book Award on Political Culture and Values is awarded for a book which makes a substantial and original contribution to theory and/or empirical studies in comparative cross-cultural research. This prize is awarded every second year and honors the best book published in the previous five years following the tradition established by Ronald F. Inglehart. Results of the 2023 competition have now been announced.

The Policy Institute at King’s College London, in partnership with the World Values Survey Association, UCL and the Behavioural Insights Team, are pleased to announce a one-day international conference on polarisation. Increasingly, there is real concern about cultural, political and social divides, and their potential implications for how we live well together, both within and across nations. How connected we feel to others, our faith in institutions, the health of democracy, and the personalisation of politics are just some of the issues being addressed by current research. In this conference, we aim to bring together international perspectives to explore how theories of polarisation and their applications in empirical work are evolving in a comparative perspective.