In collaboration with GORBI (Georgian Opinion Research Business International), the European Values Study organized the first international workshop of EVS2017 “Comparing values in (post)crisis Europe“. In aforegoing years, Europe was exposed to remarkable dynamics of simultaneously growing together and falling apart. The workshop aimed 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 was 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, and the validity and cross-cultural comparability of values and attitudes. Alongside selected proposals, the program was enriched by keynote contributions and special panels:
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 
