Changing Values and Beliefs in 85 Countries ― Trends from the Values Surveys from 1981 to 2004

A team of social scientists continue the series presenting data from the European Values Study, a large-scale cross-national and longitudinal research project on fundamental values in Western societies. The tables identify percentages of answers in a wide range of countries to selected questions concerning perceptions of life, environment, work, family, politics and society, religion and morale, and national identity. Despite the subtitle, the four "waves" of data are from 1981, 1990, 1995, and 2000. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Loek Halman, Ph.D. (1991), Tilburg University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Cultural Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University. He is general secretary to the European Values Study Foundation and Program Director of the European Values Study. His research deals with issues of modernization, individualization, and secularization of (Western) societies, attitudes and values.Ronald Inglehart, Ph.D. (1967), University of Chicago, is professor of political science and program director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and directs the World Values Survey. His research deals with changing belief systems and their impact on social and political change.Jaime Diez-Medrano, Eng. (1987), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, is the president of JD Systems, director of the ASEP/JDS Archive and responsible of the World Values Survey data cleaning since 2000. He participated in the construction of the WVS1995 and WVS2000 official files and the construction of the four wave EVS/WVS aggregate. He is expert in data dissemination.Ruud Luijkx, Ph.D. (1994), Tilburg University, is Lecturer of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and data manager for the European Values Study. He is co-responsible for the construction of the 1981-2004 EVS/WVS aggregate file. He has published on inter- and intragenerational social mobility, social inequality and stratification, the dynamics of value change and on categorical data analysis. Alejandro Moreno, Ph.D. (1997), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), and head of the department of surveys at newspaper Reforma, both in Mexico City. His main publications and current research deal with public opinion, voting behavior, and political values in Mexico and other new democracies. Miguel Basanez, Ph.D. (1990), London School of Economics, is president of Global Quality Research Corp, an international survey research firm based in Princeton, NJ, USA. He helped found the Latin-Barometer (1995) and the Asia-Barometer (2004) and is member of the World Values Survey’s Steering Committee. His research deals with changing belief systems and their impact on social and political change.