Call for Papers for RC17 - Comparative Public Opinion Panels
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Deadline: Wed, 11 Nov 2026
The World Values Survey Association invites abstract submissions for two panels within RC17 - Comparative Public Opinion at the 29th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, which will take place 24-28 July 2027 in Rome, Italy, under the theme Uncertain Democracies: Rethinking Governance in a Changing Global System.
Both panels are particularly relevant to scholars working with the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Study (EVS), and other comparative survey data sources.
This panel invites comparative research examining the relationship between changing social and political values, public attitudes, and democratic governance. We welcome contributions investigating how citizens understand and evaluate democracy, support for democratic institutions and principles, political trust, institutional legitimacy, political participation, and broader processes of democratic resilience and transformation. Research exploring longitudinal trends, generational differences, and cross-national variation in values and political orientations is particularly encouraged. Studies using WVS/EVS data, independently or in combination with other comparative datasets, are especially welcome.
This panel focuses on methodological challenges and innovations in international comparative values research. We invite contributions examining the quality, reliability, validity, and comparability of survey measurements across countries, survey waves, and data collection modes. Topics of particular interest include measurement equivalence, sampling and coverage, non-response, questionnaire translation, response styles, interviewer and mode effects, weighting, and data quality. We also welcome research on methodological experiments, online and mixed-mode survey designs, and the implications of methodological decisions for substantive findings and interpretations of social and political change.
