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Remembering Ronald Inglehart, the Founding President of the World Values Survey Association WVSA is deeply saddened by the passing of Ronald Inglehart on May 8th, 2021. Ron was one of the greatest Political Scientists of our contemporary world, teacher to many, a true mastermind and the Founder of the World Values Survey - one of his many outstanding legacies. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.

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Why the Future is Democratic - by WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel Democracy and especially its liberal principles are said to be fast receding as various forms of authoritarianism surge. In truth, the long-term future for democracy in the world is much brighter than most imagine. In essence, “modernization theory” is proving correct. Economic development brings expanding levels of education, information, travel, and other experiences that enhance human knowledge, awareness, and intelligence. This “cognitive mobilization” inspires and empowers people to act with purpose and think for themselves, rather than accept received authority and wisdom. In other words, development brings value change that is highly conducive to the emergence and persistence of liberal democracy.

Attitudes towards Institutions, Politics, and Policies: Key Findings from the World Value Survey in Singapore Attitudes towards Institutions, Politics, and Policies analyses the responses of 2,012 Singapore participants for WVS 2020. Comparisons across WVS participant countries and iterations are presented where appropriate to allow for the tracking of shifting or sustaining values across time and space. In general, the survey sample is nationally representative, as the dataset was weighted to mirror the age, gender, and race demographics of the adult resident population in Singapore.

9 Distinctive Trends in Japan Revealed by Analysis of the World Values Survey Dentsu Institute (Executive Producer: Naoki Tani), an internal organization of Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; President & CEO: Toshihiro Yamamoto; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen), and the Ikeda Laboratory*(Professor: Ken’ichi Ikeda), a facility engaged in media and social psychology research at Doshisha University (location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture; President: Tomoko Ueki), with the collaboration of Dentsu Macromill Insight, Inc., have conducted their own international comparative analysis of results from the World Values Survey (WVS), a survey of a total of over 100 countries and societies. The analysis revealed 9 distinctive trends in Japan.

COVID-19 Crisis Boosts Progressive Values Amidst Growing Pessimism – International Panel Study A unique panel survey conducted in 24 countries by Professor Ronald Inglehart, Founder and First President (1981-2013) of the World Values Survey Association and Martijn Lampert, Co-founder and Research Director of research agency Glocalities reveals the dual impact that the COVID-19 crisis has on values, emotions and the economy.

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.

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.

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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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