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Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2020 data-set release The World Values Survey Association (WVSA) and the European Values Study (EVS) are happy to announce the release of the official joint EVS-WVS 2017-2020 data-set. Fieldwork for this survey round was conducted from early 2017 to mid-2020. The joint data-set covers 79 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Albania, Australia and Argentina to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. In total, over 127 358 respondents were interviewed so far for this joint EVS-WVS wave.

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Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion - Revisited A new article by Ronald Inglehart, Professor at the University of Michigan and WVSA's Founder and President (1981-2013), was published in the September/October 2020 issue of the Foreign Affairs. An amendment to the article text was published in February 2021.

New Rules for WVS Database Citation Dear scholars, authors, students, journalists and all colleagues who use WVS data in your research, analysis, journal publications and books! We would like to attract your attention to the new rules for citation of the WVS data-set when using it. When making a publication, please, make sure that it includes a reference to the WVS in the following format:

The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released The World Values Survey Association is happy to present the new 2020 (provisional) world cultural map based on the newest World Values Survey and European Values Study survey data. The cultural map methodology developed by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart and the WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of societies are located on these two dimensions. The 2020 map is the provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map with the final map to be released in Fall 2021 upon the completion of the wave.

Internship at the World Values Survey Association: Call for Interns in Jordan The World Values Survey Association Secretariat (Vienna, Austria) in cooperation with the Institute for Future Studies (Stockholm, Sweden) and NAMA Strategic Intelligence Solutions (Amman, Jordan) invite senior students and young post-graduate researchers residing in Amman, Jordan to apply for an internship at the WVSA. Selected candidates will participate in a pilot study on values, attitudes and perceptions of migrants and refugees in the capacity of interviewers and data analysts in February-June 2021.

Can our democracy survive if most Republicans think the government is illegitimate? A new article in Washington Post by Pippa Norris, Professor of Political Science at Harvard University, Director of Electoral Integrity Project and member of the Executive Committee at the World Values Survey Association.

Religion’s Sudden Decline. Why It’s Happening and What Comes Next - a new book by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart The new book provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020--the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion. The book presents a theory of why religion spreads or declines and tests it against a massive base of evidence. The book presents evidence that humans need a coherent belief system but that its nature reflects the society's environment.

New book: Social and cultural values. How they arise, how they spread and how they change A new book "Social and cultural values. How they arise, how they spread and how they change" has been published by Juan Diez-Nicolas, Chair of the Scientific Committee at the World Values Survey Association.

10th LCSR International Workshop The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics announces a call for the 10th LCSR International Workshop, which will be held within the XXII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. It will take place in Moscow from the 13th till 23rd of April 2021. The submission deadline is December 27, 2020.

New book: How Italians change. Values and attitudes from the eighties to today The joint EVS-WVS Italian team published the book “Come cambiano gli italiani, Valori e atteggiamenti dagli anni Ottanta a oggi” (How Italians change. Values and attitudes from the eighties to today). How have Italians changed from the 1980s to today? How have Italians’ attitudes towards society, politics, work, family, religion, the European Union, science, the environment changed? Organized in fifteen short chapters dedicated to individual themes of great cultural, social and political relevance, the book presents the unpublished results of a major survey on the values of Europeans and Italians.

WVSA participates in the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia” On 16-17 October the OSCE Academy and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-organized Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia.” Regional and international experts discussed to what extent institutional changes and shifts from autocratic to democratic systems have been accompanied by a shift of democratic and human rights values and how - so-called - traditional values in post-soviet Central Asia contradict or complement modern emancipatory norms.

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PRESIDENT

Christian Haerpfer

c.w.haerpfer@gmail.com

WVSA President

University of Vienna

Institute of Political Science

Vienna 1010, Austria

SECRETARIAT
(WVSA Headquarters)

Kseniya Kizilova

wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com

Head of WVSA Secretariat

Institute for Comparative

Survey Research

Vienna 1040, Austria

LEGAL SEAT

Bi Puranen

bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

Secretary-General

Institute for Future Studies

Stockholm, Sweden 101 31

DATA ARCHIVE

Jaime Diez-Medrano

jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

Director of the WVSA Archive

Pza Manuel Rodrigo 1, B-1E

Madrid, Spain 28043

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