EVS group has published another in a series of monographs called “Values in transition”, which offer the readers a comprehensive collection of all academic surveys the team has designed and carried out between 1999 and 2008. ‘Values’ No 4 offers a whole series of methodological papers: theory and practice of comparative and longitudinal research (Malnar), understanding survey data (Štebe), history and nature of telephone surveys (Kurdija), context effects in survey research (Uhan), equivalence advances brought about by the European Social Survey and comparative capital of the ISSP time
COBISS.SI-ID: 237180928
Trust in institutions of political and social system is a basis of modern democracies. The analysis confirms that expression of trust in political institutions is under the strong influence of political views of the evaluators. Low level of trust in political institutions in Slovenia limits participation of Slovenians in the democratic processes and the success of their control over legislative and executive power. Cross country comparisons reveal a relationship between trust and level of democratic and economic development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28584541
This article presents an analytical approach that could become of special relevance for large quantities of unused data outside the current data bases for comparative analyses. Surveys which have been designed for the purpose of analyzing a single population are characterized as atomic survey-datasets. The morphological approach creates bridges between atomic survey datasets and attempts to bring them into the arena of comparative research. It generates a set of morphological constructs which allows heterogeneous datasets to be used for comparative analyses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28584797
The book develops a model for a new type of trans-disciplinary knowledge production that draws together expertise in the social, psychological, biological and technical sciences to address urgent social problems. The new RISC framework takes large quantities of building blocks from traditional research across the natural and social sciences areas, but provides a re-arrangement or, alternatively, a recombinative and integrative design for these many diverse and isolated compoments.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29836381
The analysis of an international data of several post-socialist countries set reveals that attitudes towards social inequalities, especially economic ones, and towards the role of the state at regulating them are complex, contradictory and state specific. The data in some respects corroborate a claim about the prevalence of egalitarianism, statism and suspicion to¬wards the merit-based distributive justice in post-socialist societies, but at the same time they indicate that inequality related attitudes cannot be described in such simple terms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27149405