International Workshop 2019

In collaboration with GORBI (Georgian Opinion Research Business International), the European Values Study organizes the first international workshop of EVS2017 “Comparing values in (post)crisis Europe“.

In the recent years, Europe was exposed to remarkable dynamics of simultaneously growing together and falling apart. The workshop aims at dealing with two main questions: How do all these changes affect the Europeans’ values? And how can researchers measure and compare human values in an adequate and meaningful way?

A Call for Abstract has been launched on May 8th welcoming contributions on European values and attitudes with a focus on multilevel and longitudinal research questions on topics such as (but not limited to) social solidarity, social cohesion, national and European identity, we are interested also in papers investigating validity and cross-cultural comparability of values and attitudes.

Read the full program (with abstracts, presentations and videos).

Alongside selected proposals, the program is enriched by keynote contributions and special panels:

In a special panel on Religion, national identity and pro-choice values, Professor David Voas (Head of Department of Social Science at University College London, and member of the Executive Committee of the European Values Study) gives a keynote speech entitled :”The power of nones: Why secularization matters“

The special panel on Measurement equivalence and validity in cross-cultural research gives the opportunity to discuss such matters with Professor Christian Welzel (Chair in Political Culture Research, Center for the Study of Democracy at Leuphana University, and Vice-President of World Values Survey Association), who proposes his speech on “Measurement Equivalence? A Tale of False Obsessions and a Cure, and Professor Bart Meuleman (Coordinator of the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven, and President of the European Survey Research Association), who gives a contribution entitled: “Measurement equivalence: Between Statistical Dogmatism and Anything Goes“.

The Local Organizing Committee at GORBI, Tbilisi, Georgia

Lucy Flynn, Rian Hulscher , Merab Pachulia

The Scientific Committee of the Workshop

Morten Frederiksen (Aalborg Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark); Vera Lomazzi (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany); Gergely Rosta (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary); Natalia Soboleva (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

  • George Sharvashidze, Rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
  • Merab Pachulia, Managing Director of GORBI and National Program Director of EVS in Georgia
  • Loek Halman, Chair of the European Values Study
  • Kseniya Kizilova – Patterns and Dynamics of National and European Identities in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Frédéric Gonthier – Who drives the increase in authoritarian values?
  • Paul Dekker – Convergence of political values? A multi-level analysis of developments among EU countries 1990-2017
  • Quita Muis – Different Across, Similar Within? Educational Polarization in Social and Political Attitudes
  • Carriero Renzo – Explaining longitudinal and cross-country changes in support for conditional unemployment benefits
  • Julia Zelikova – Ageing of Population and Social Justice
  • Michael Ochsner – Social Responsibility of the State? The Welfare State and Legitimacy of the State
  • David Voas – The power of nones: Why secularization matters
  • Francesco Molteni – Burning the bridge with the past: religion and national identity after the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Jara Kampmann – Does Atheism matter? – Atheism’s influence on homophobia in Europe – EVS data revisited
  • Veronica Kostenko – Dynamics of nationalism and pro-choice values relations: the cases of post-Soviet and Balkan states
  • Panel on Family , gender and generations Chair: Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi
  • Natalia Soboleva – Parental family and country context as determinants of gender- role attitudes in Europe (the evidence of EVS data)
  • Zuzanna Brzozowska – Are family values multidimensional? Evidence from the last three decades in Europe
  • Ana Lortkipanidze – Aging and Ageism in Comparison
  • Christian Welzel – Measurement Equivalence? A Tale of False Obsessions and a Cure
  • Bart Meuleman – Measurement equivalence: Between Statistical Dogmatism and Anything Goes
  • Boris Sokolov – Cross-national and cross-level measurement equivalence of choice and gender equality values in the EVS 2017
  • Vera Lomazzi – Gender role attitudes in EVS2017: is the measurement improved?
  • Lucy Flynn – Interview falsification: an exploratory analysis
  • Dustin Gilbreath – How predictable is item non-response in Georgia?
  • Malina Voicu – Measurement of radical populism in Romania: dimensions and over time change
  • Bogdan Voicu – Remitting Populism?
  • Riccardo Ladini – Who do you prefer not to have as a neighbour? An “immigrant” or a “foreign worker”? Evidence from a survey experiment in the Italian edition of the European Values Study – World Values Survey 2017
  • Horatiu M. Rusu – Civic and ethnic ethos and attitudes toward immigrants
  • Kathrin Bush – Hostility towards immigrants: Economic and Cultural Threat perceptions as causes in times of the economic crises and rising numbers of immigration