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25 years of the EVS project in Croatia

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Croatia joined the European Values Study in 1998. To mark the 25th anniversary of this fruitful scientific partnership, the Croatian team organized an event in Zagreb on 27 September, 2023 (in Kaptol 29a, Zagreb).

Scholars from different disciplines and public media representatives attended the event.

Program

9.30 – 10.50    Opening address and greetings

Archbishop of Zagabria, Mons. Dražen Kutleša                       

Dean of CFT, Josip Šimunović, Ph.D.

9.50 – 10.30    Occasional speeches

                        Josip Baloban, Prof. Emeritus (First EVS National Program Director in Croatia)

                        Prof. Vera Lomazzi, Ph.D., The Past, Present and Future of EVS (Executive Committee of EVS)

10.35 – 11.35 Two introductory presentations: reflection on three books and Croatian results

                        Prof. Stjepan Kušar, Ph.D.

                        Assoc. Prof. Tijana Trako Poljak, Ph.D.

                        Moderator: Prof. Gordan Črpić, Ph.D. (Former member of the Theory Group of EVS)

11.40 – 12.00 Discussion

12.00 – 12.20 Break

12.20 – 13.45 Panel discussion 

Participants: Vera Lomazzi, Gordan Črpić, Krunoslav Nikodem, Stjepan Baloban, Tonči Matulić, Dragan Bagić (ESS), Ivan Balabanić, Josip Ježovita

Moderator: Prof. Siniša Zrinščak, Ph.D.

13.45 – 14.00 Closing remarks

                        Assoc. Prof. Silvija Migles, Ph.D.

Media report

EVS Panel at the 76 WAPOR Conference

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In the context of the 76° Conference of the World Association of Public Opinion Research, held in Salisburg from 18 to 22 September 2023, the EVS organized a panel chaired by Ruud Luijkx (chair of the Executive Committee) and Michael Ochsner (Chair of the Scientific Committee of the EVS).

After introducing the audience to the EVS project, some EVS scholars presented their research work:

Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy): Gender Equality Values and Cultural Orientations: Insights from the European Values Study


Markus Quandt (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy): ‘Close’ and ‘Universal’ Solidarity in Europe. Exploring Differences and Antecedents of Attitudinal Solidarity, using the European Values Study 2017

Milos Besic (University of Belgrade, Serbia): The Predictive Capacity of Fair Elections on Institutional Strength,
HDI, GDP per Capita, and Interpersonal Trust: A Country-Level Analysis


Alice Ramos (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Jorge Vala (University of Lisbon, Portugal): Are Childrearing Values’ Preferences in Europe Associated to Socioeconomic Development and Social Inequalities?


Edurne Bartolomé Peral (Peral University of Deusto, Spain), Hermann Duelmer (University of Cologne, Germany), Pascal Siegers (GESIS -Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Tilo Beckers (Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany): “Who shall live, and who shall die?” – Attitudes Towards Medical Triage during the Covid pandemic: Results from an Experimental Design Using Factorial Survey

Other members of EVS contributed to the program in other sessions:

Natalia Soboleva (HSE University, Russia), Boris Sokolov (HSE University, Russia): Labor Market Status Change and life Satisfaction During the Coronavirus Pandemic (the Evidence of Values in Crisis Study)

Yilmaz Esmer (Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Duygu Karadon (Bahcesehir University, Turkey): Demand for Populism in the Black Sea Region: A Cultural Values Approach to Populist Politics

Bobby Duffy (King’s College London, UK), Paul Stoneman (King’s College London, UK), James Wright (King’s College London, UK): Generations and Attitudes Towards Society and Democracy



Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study

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Regina Polak and Patrick Rohs (Austrian team of EVS) edited the book “Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study. In-depth Analysis – Interdisciplinary Perspectives – Future Prospects“, recently published in open access.

The book analyses the international data of the European Values Study (EVS 1990 – 2017), with a focus on the impact of religious on political values from empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, i.e. sociology, political and cultural studies, philosophy, ethics, theology and the law. It interprets results from interdisciplinary perspectives, including the viewpoints of social ethics, sociology and cultural studies, law and practical theology. In the political and public as well as media debates of the European Union, the recourse to (above all “European” and also “Christian”) values has played a central and controversial role in the field of politics and religion for several decades. This collection is a contribution to a qualified discourse on values in Europe by providing empirical, hermeneutical and ethical criteria for a responsible use of the concept of values. In addition to a comparison of political value systems in Western and Eastern Europe and the possible role of religion in this context, the book also deals with topics such as, f.i., solidarity, economics and values, value formation, and law and values. Additionally, specific population groups such as the socio-culturally marginalized strata are examined more closely.

Introduction

  • Regina Polak, Patrick Rohs

Pages 1-29 Open Access PDF

Basic Research

  1. Front MatterPages 31-31PDF
  2. Values: A Contested Concept. Problem Outline and Interdisciplinary Approaches
    • Regina Polak
    Pages 33-93 Open AccessPDF
  3. A Critical History of the Use of ‘European Values’
    • Wim Weymans
    Pages 95-123Open AccessPDF
  4. Transformations in the Religious and Moral Landscape in Europe?
    • Loek Halman, Inge Sieben
    Pages 125-154Open AccessPDF

In-Depth Analysis

  1. Front MatterPages 155-155PDF
  2. Political Values and Religion: A Comparison Between Western and Eastern Europe
    • Susanne Pickel, Gert Pickel
    Pages 157-203Open AccessPDF
  3. Religion, Values and Politics: The Effect of Religiosity on Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Muslims
    • Regina Polak, Dirk Schuster
    Pages 205-248Open AccessPDF
  4. Solidarity: A European Value?
    • Markus Quandt, Vera Lomazzi
    Pages 249-280Open AccessPDF
  5. The Invisibles: Religious and Political Values Among Different Social Classes
    • Pierre Bréchon
    Pages 281-311Open AccessPDF

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  1. Front MatterPages 313-313PDF
  2. Ethical and Theological Approaches to the Value Discourses in Europe
    • Christof Mandry
    Pages 315-337Open AccessPDF
  3. Values and Economy: How Companies Deal with Values
    • Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi
    Pages 339-368Open AccessPDF
  4. Values and Laws
    • Christoph Konrath
    Pages 369-390Open AccessPDF

Future Prospects

  1. Front MatterPages 391-391PDF
  2. Perceptions of Social Challenges in Europe. Disentangling the Effects of Context, Social Structure, Religion, Values and Political Attitudes to Identify Potential Drivers of Societal Change
    • Wolfgang Aschauer
    Pages 393-447Open AccessPDF
  3. Values Education, Politics and Religion
    • Bernhard Grümme
    Pages 449-474Open AccessPDF
  4. Conclusions, Consequences, Challenges
    • Regina Polak
    Pages 475-521Open Access

WVS/EVS joint session at IPSA

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27th World Congress of Political Science took place on 15-19 July 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The WVS/EVS joint session “Social Values and Norms Changing the Development of Societies: Evidence from the European Values Study and the World Values Survey“, organized by Edurne Bartolome Peral (EVS) and Kseniya Kizilova (WVS) welcomed contributions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research. Recent joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analysis. We invite papers which make use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.

Convenor: Dr. Kseniya Kizilova

Chair: Dr. Edurne Bartolome

Co-chair: Prof. Christian Haerpfer

Discussants: Dr. Ingrid Grosse

Papers:

Mongolian’s Social Values: Overview and Some Comparisons Authors: Prof. Nadezhda Dulina, Dr. Tseveen Tsetsenbileg

The Social Dynamics of Religiosity Decline Author: Dr. Jakson Aquino

Ukrainian Values: Between the Slavic-Orthodox Legacy and Europe’s Allure Authors: Dr. Plamen Akaliyski, Dr. Tim Reeskens

Values and Character Building Promoted by Indonesian Parents at Home: Evidence from World Value Survey

Authors: Dr. Ni Wayan Suriastini, Dr. Bondan Soepraptilah Sikoki

EVS at ESRA23

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Several members of the European Values Study participated in the 10°Conference of the European Survey Research Association, held in Milan from 17 to 21 of July, 2023. More than 900 scholars attended the biennal event.

Panel discussion “Survey research post-pandemic: What is it becoming?”
Ruud Luijkx, Chair of the Executive Committee of EVS participated in the panel discussion “Survey research post-pandemic: What is it becoming?”, chaired by Gerry Nicolaas (National Centre for Social Research).

The panel discussion will bring together experts in the field to share insights about the changing survey landscape and the impact that this is having on survey practice. The panel will explore how advances in technology and changes in societal norms are changing the way surveys are designed and implemented. Even before the pandemic, we were already witnessing a shift from traditional interviewer-administered surveys to online surveys, either as a stand-alone mode or embedded within a mixed mode system including face-to-face, telephone and paper. The panel will reflect on the impact of Covid-19 on these advances and changes. This includes discussing the challenges and opportunities that have arisen from conducting surveys during a pandemic, and to what extent these will continue to shape the future of survey research. The panel will discuss how survey practitioners and researchers can navigate current challenges and opportunities to ensure that their surveys remain robust, efficient, and effective in providing high-quality data and insights that can inform decision-making processes.

Panel Participants:

  • Brad Edwards, Vice President, Westat, Large Surveys Practice
  • Rory Fitzgerald, Professor of Practice in Survey Research, City, University of London
  • Ruud Luijkx, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University
  • Caroline Roberts, Assistant Professor in Survey Methodology, University of Lausanne
  • Christof Wolf, President, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Values Surveys Sessions

The European Values Study and the World Values Survey continue their cooperation also in dissemination activities. The two research group proposed the session “European Values Study and World Values Survey: Exploring New Survey Findings and Addressing Methodological Challenges”.

The session, organized by Vera Lomazzi, Kseniya Kizilova, and Ruud Luijkx, welcomed proposals addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research making use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.

Wednesday 19 July, 09:00 – 10:30

Misogynistic Gender Ideologies and the Participation in Clubs Sports: A Comparative Perspective based on the World Value Survey and the European Values Study – Mr Simon Lütkewitte (Bielefeld University )

The Gender Value Gap: Evidence from the World Values Survey – Dr Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE University), Dr Plamen Akaliyski (University Carlos III of Madrid), Professor Michael Minkov (Varna University of Management)

European Attitudes towards Same-sex Parenting and Adoption by Same-sex Couples – Dr Ivett Szalma (Centre for Social Sciences), Professor Judit Takács (Centre for Social Sciences)

Double Trouble? The Interplay of Political Ideology and Religiosity in Shaping Attitudes towards Abortion in a Comparative Global Perspective – Dr Giulia Maria Dotti-Sani (University of Milan), Dr Jessica Rosco (University of Milan)

Postmaterialism and Value Change: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of the US, Japan, Turkey and China – Professor Ming-Chang Tsai (Academia Sinica)

Thursday 20 July, 9:00 – 10:30

Separating cross-cultural and cross-national: an investigation of moral differences using the European Values Study – Miss Anastasiia Volkova (University of Helsinki)

Religiosity, religious context, and intolerance: A cross-survey comparison – Ms Andrea Turković (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)

Different Methods, But Same Results? A Comparison of Causal Forest and Propensity Score Matching on Health Disparities Between Natives And Migrants – Mr Manuel Holz (TU Chemnitz), Ms Sandra Jaworeck (TU Chemnitz)

Do Mode and Design Matter? Comparability and Representation between Face-to-Face and different designs of Push-to-Web using substantive research questions – Dr Michael Ochsner (FORS), Dr Jessica M. E. Herzing (University of Berne), Mr Alexandre Pollien (FORS), Dr Michèle Ernst Staehli (FORS)

Co-nationals, first! How national identity and perceived threats matter in native favouritism – Dr Simona Guglielmi (University of Milan)

Ambiguity in the Item Wording, Ambiguity in the Respondents’ Comprehension?

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An experiment included in the Italian joint edition of the European Value Study-World Values Survey 2017 has studied the working of the item “immigrants/foreign workers” in the social distance scale. Since the item could appear ambiguous as it refers to two different categories of people – i.e., foreign workers are a subgroup of immigrants –  the authors tried to answer the following research question: Do the respondents’ answers refer to immigrants? To foreign workers? To both?

By assigning respondents to three different formulations of the item (“immigrants/foreign workers”, “immigrants”, “foreign workers”), the results suggests that ambiguity in the item wording does not necessarily mean ambiguity in the respondents’ comprehension.

Indeed, at least in the Italian context, people react to the “immigrants” and “immigrants/foreign workers” items in a similar way. Thus, the results of the experiment provide some useful suggestions for reviewing the questionnaire for EVS, WVS, and other surveys using the immigrants/foreign workers item in the social distance scale. See Riccardo Ladini and Ferruccio Biolcati’s article “Ambiguity in the Item Wording, Ambiguity in the Respondents’ Comprehension? An Experiment on the ‘Immigrants/Foreign Workers’ Social Distance Item in Values Surveys” published in Survey Research Methods (Open Access).

New Book by the EVS Croatian team

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The Croatian team recently published a new publication based on EVS data addressing the changes in the value system in democratic Croatia.

Promjene vrijednosnog sustava u demokratskoj Hrvatskoj Josip Baloban, Silvija Migles, Krunoslav Nikodem and Siniša Zrinščak (eds.) 2023. Zagreb: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu and Kršćanska sadašnjost. ISBN: 978-953-6420-41-4; ISBN: 978-953-11-1757-9. 

The book is in Croatian but the entire Foreword is in English.: https://www.kbf.unizg.hr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/vrijednosni-sustavi.pdf. 

EVS-WVS Sessions at ESRA23

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The European Values Study and the Wrold Values Survey continue their cooperation also in dissemination activities. The two research group proposed the session “European Values Study and World Values Survey: Exploring New Survey Findings and Addressing Methodological Challenges”.

The session, organized by Vera Lomazzi, Kseniya Kizilova, and Ruud Luijkx, welcomed proposals addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research making use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.
The session also invited papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other. The panel particularly invites papers comparing findings collected via different survey methods in the same countries allowing to estimate the reliability of online surveys and discuss challenges and prospects of their combined use.

Following the peer review process, selected authors will present their value research in three sub-sessions:

Wednesday 19 July, 09:00 – 10:30

Misogynistic Gender Ideologies and the Participation in Clubs Sports: A Comparative Perspective based on the World Value Survey and the European Values Study – Mr Simon Lütkewitte (Bielefeld University )

The Gender Value Gap: Evidence from the World Values Survey – Dr Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE University), Dr Plamen Akaliyski (University Carlos III of Madrid), Professor Michael Minkov (Varna University of Management)

European Attitudes towards Same-sex Parenting and Adoption by Same-sex Couples – Dr Ivett Szalma (Centre for Social Sciences), Professor Judit Takács (Centre for Social Sciences)

Double Trouble? The Interplay of Political Ideology and Religiosity in Shaping Attitudes towards Abortion in a Comparative Global Perspective – Dr Giulia Maria Dotti-Sani (University of Milan), Dr Jessica Rosco (University of Milan)

Postmaterialism and Value Change: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of the US, Japan, Turkey and China – Professor Ming-Chang Tsai (Academia Sinica)

Thursday 20 July, 9:00 – 10:30

Separating cross-cultural and cross-national: an investigation of moral differences using the European Values Study – Miss Anastasiia Volkova (University of Helsinki)

Religiosity, religious context, and intolerance: A cross-survey comparison – Ms Andrea Turković (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)

Different Methods, But Same Results? A Comparison of Causal Forest and Propensity Score Matching on Health Disparities Between Natives And Migrants – Mr Manuel Holz (TU Chemnitz), Ms Sandra Jaworeck (TU Chemnitz)

Do Mode and Design Matter? Comparability and Representation between Face-to-Face and different designs of Push-to-Web using substantive research questions – Dr Michael Ochsner (FORS), Dr Jessica M. E. Herzing (University of Berne), Mr Alexandre Pollien (FORS), Dr Michèle Ernst Staehli (FORS)

Co-nationals, first! How national identity and perceived threats matter in native favouritism – Dr Simona Guglielmi (University of Milan)

EVS-WVS session at ESRA23

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The 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association will take place 17th-21st July 2023 in Milan, Italy.

The European Values Study and the World Values Survey organize the joint session “European Values Study and World Values Survey: Exploring New Survey Findings and Addressing Methodological Challenges” :

The European Values Study (EVS) and the World Values Survey (WVS) are two large-scale comparative time-series survey research programs studying people’s values, norms and beliefs. Since 1981, these programmes have jointly carried out representative national surveys in over 120 countries and societies containing 92 percent of the world’s population representing an invaluable data source for a global network of scholars and international development agencies, including the World Bank, the UNDP, the WHO, regional development banks etc.
Over the years, the EVS and the WVS have proven the importance of population value study and have demonstrated that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development, emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, rise of gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective government.
We welcome submissions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research.
The recently published joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analysis. Present session invites papers which make use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.
We also invite papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other. The panel particularly invites papers comparing findings collected via different survey methods in the same countries allowing to estimate the reliability of online surveys and discuss challenges and prospects of their combined use.

Deadline for abstracts submission: 20.12.2022

For details please consult ESRA webpage

CfP Session on Values at IPSA23

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27th World Congress of Political Science will take place on 15-19 JULY 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among the several sessions proposed, Edurne Bartolome Peral (EVS) and Kseniya Kizilova (WVS) organize a session on “Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Comparative Study of Values“.

Description

Values are at the core of citizens´ vision of right and wrong and are at the origins of attitudes and human behaviour. They are deeply interrelated with material conditions and value change has explained relevant variations across time and across societies on human visions and its crystallization into policies, social processes and moral principles. For decades, European Values Study (EVS) and World Values Survey (WVS) have been tracking the effect of social modernization and human development (including political, scientific, and technological changes) which have transformed human value priorities. Since 1981, these programmes have jointly carried out representative national surveys in over 120 countries and societies containing 92 percent of the world’s population representing an invaluable data source for a global network of scholars, Governments, policy makers and international development agencies. Over the years, the EVS and the WVS have proven the importance of population value study and how modernization processes and human development have led through history to a set of transformations in human mindset, and how value structures change according to a range of value preferences and attitudes. Moreover, research on values demonstrates that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development, emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, rise of gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective government.
We welcome submissions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research. Recent joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analysis. We invite papers which make use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others. We also invite papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other.

Click here to submit your abstract by 18.01.2023.

Detailed information is provided on IPSA website.

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