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24 dic 2017
Meeting with the delegation from the Northeast Normal University in China
On Friday, December, 22, 2017 WVSA President and the Head of the WVSA Secretariat held a meeting and cooperation talks with the delegation from the Center for Ideological and Political Education, Northeast Normal University, China.
27 nov 2017
International Workshop “Security in the Mediterranean”
An International Workshop entitled “Security in the Mediterranean” took place on November, 21-25, 2017 at the University of Almeria and was organized by the WVSA Regional Hub for Mediterranean (Southern Europe and Northern Africa). The program of the event features presentations by Seminar Directors Juan Diez-Nicolas and Pilar Rodriguez, WVSA President Christian Haerpfer as well as WVS PIs Munqith Dagher (WVS-Iraq), Fares Braizat (WVS-Jordan), Mhammed Abderebbi (WVS-Morocco), Sokratis Koniordos (WVS-Greece).
22 nov 2017
WVSA President Professor Haerpfer gives a key-note speech at the Aqdar World Summit
WVSA President Professor Haerpfer gives a key-note speech devoted to the issues of moral education and global values at the Aqdar World Summit which takes place in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, on November, 21-23, 2017.
01 nov 2017
WVS Courses on Comparative Social Research at the University of Almeria
The first round of teaching courses on Comparative Social Research has been conducted at the University of Almeria on October, 19-20, 2017 with the organizational support of the WVSA Regional Hub for Mediterranean.
12 oct 2017
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.
12 oct 2017
Festive Launch of the WVS-7 in Brazil!
On October, the 24th, the Launch Conference of the WVS-7 survey in Brazil with the simultaneous participation of WVS' members of different teams around the world took place. Scholars had an opportunity to discuss academic research with the use of WVS data in the first half of the Conference and, the second half was dedicated to methodological discussions and challenges of the development of WVS' survey. The Conference was broadcasted live.
01 oct 2017
WVSA community congratulates Vice-President Christian Welzel on a new grant award!
The German Science Foundation (DFG) has granted Christian Welzel, the Vice-President of the World Values Survey Association, the Reinhard Koselleck Award of the amount of one million Euro to conduct research for the project 'The Cool Water Effect: Why Human Civilization turned towards Emancipation in Cold-Wet Regions.'
26 jul 2017
Annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association
Annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association took place on July, 13-14 in Lisbon, Portugal.
23 jul 2017
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
14 jul 2017
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12 jul 2017
WVSA newsletter for July 2017 is available now!
WVSA community newsletter as of July 2017 is available now!
07 jul 2017
Tell us what you think about the WVSA: complete a short online survey
Complete a short online survey and tell us what you think about the WVSA so that we could take into account your opinion and suggestions while working on the next, 7th wave of the survey!
13 jun 2017
Submit information about your WVS-based books or articles for inclusion into the data-base of WVS publications!
WVSA Secretariat is compiling a full list of publications (articles, conference papers, book chapters, books, online posts etc.) which are based on or employ WVS data. We invite all scholars at any stage of your academic career to submit references of your publications where you use WVS data in your analysis.
02 jun 2017
Signing ceremony and opening of the WVS International Seminar at the University of Almeria
International Seminar "World Values Survey" has been established at the University of Almeria and will act as the WVSA Regional Hub for the Mediterranean region (Southern Europe and North Africa).
05 may 2017
Christian Welzel gives a lecture on moral progress and populism
WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel gave a lecture on moral progress and populism at Haus der Begegnung in Innsbruck (Austria) on March 28.
01 may 2017
VALUES IN TRANSITION? Interview with Ronald Inglehart, Founding President of the World Values Survey
Martin Luther King famously said that the arc of history is bending toward justice - a statement sometimes dismissed as too idealistic but one that may actually have a basis in social science. More than thirty years of research by Ronald Inglehart suggest that, in the long run, democratisation, with its attendant social and legal justice, is inevitable. But how long is that long run?
20 abr 2017
Worth Reading: New Publications by the WVSA Vice-President Professor Christian Welzel!
Full texts of 3 new publications by the WVSA Vice-President and co-author of the revised theory of modernization Professor Christian Welzel are available now for downloading free of charge at the WVSA web-site. Publications are dealing with issues of democracy, understandings of democracy and authoritarian features accepted as a part of the democratic regime, underraiting and overrating of the democraticness of the political regime, as well as rising emancipatory spirit, across generations and around the world and sexual freedoms.
13 abr 2017
WVSA at the 7th LCSR International Workshop at HSE in Moscow
7th International Workshop of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research of the Higher School of Economics took place on April, 11-14, 2017. Members of the WVSA Executive Committee Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno gave key-notes speeches at the event.
13 abr 2017
WVSA President Christian W Haerpfer Delivers the IPSA Lecture at the IAPSS World Congress
On April 5th 2017, President of the WVSA and Member of the Executive Committee of International Political Science Association Professor Christian W Haerpfer gave a lecture on “The Meaning of Political Participation: Methodology and Measurement” to a large crowd of students coming from 33 different countries. He discussed various topics of which the definition of the cycle of political participation and how to measure elections (quantitative and qualitative measurements).
09 mar 2017
WVSA community newsletter for March, 2017 is available now!
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