ESRA 2025: European Values Study and World Values Survey: Substantive Findings and Methodological Challenges in Value Research
In the framework of the ongoing cooperation between the European Values Study and the World Values Survey Association, a joint session on value research is proposed at the 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, that will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands on 14-18 July, 2025. Abstracts up to 300 words can be submitted via the ESRA conference management system before the deadline of December 20, 2024. See the full call on the ESRA website for more details.
European Values Study and World Values Survey: Substantive Findings and Methodological Challenges in Value Research
Session organizers: Dr Vera Lomazzi (European Values Study/ University of Bergamo); Dr Kseniya Kizilova (World Values Survey Association/ Luneburg University); Professor Ruud Luijkx (European Values Study/Tilburg University).
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, the OECD, 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 as well as to discuss the challenges and opportunities.
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