The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers WEDNESDAY: Before You Were Here THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week Analyzing the world's social values Though Prof. Ronald Ingle- hart has been teaching compara- tive politics at the University since 1966, he says the most important achievement of his research career is designing and conducting the World Values Survey. The survey - the largest survey of its kind - coordinates social sci- entists in 97 nations. The World Values Survey Asso- ciation first collected data in 1981 and is currently preparing for the collection of its fifth wave of sur- veys on the cultural, economic and political values of people across the globe. "The World Values Survey is a project where we study the basic values and beliefs of people all over," Inglehart said in an inter- view yesterday at his home. "We find that what people want out of life is changing, and is changing in a couple of clear ways. As a social sci- CRIME NOTES entist this is very exciting - to have rather coherent patterns in which economic development seems to bring roughly predictable changes in beliefs and values in nations." In April 2009, Inglehart was named to the prestigious Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his work on the World Values Survey and his exten- sive publications analyzing the data it has collected. Inglehart says that the study of changes in social values over time can be used to anticipate future national trends. "We've analyzed the results now and we're pretty much on target - we didn't expect we'd be perfectly accurate but on the basis of the data we analyzed we can tell ifa coun- try is getting richer, we can tell ifa country is getting more secular, " Inglehart said. Inglehart said he is enthusias- tic bout continuing to expand the World Values Survey, and hopes that the information it has collect- ed can be used to take an intelligent approach to improving the quality of life in unstable nations. For example, he said he believes it is important for political lead- ers to recognize that an effective democracy is difficult to establish in a country where many or most citizens still struggle with personal and economic security. "The more secure you feel, the more open you are to diversity and change, so this dynamic is linked with subsistence," Inglehart said. In addition to his research, Ingle- hart is currently teaching introduc- tion to Comparative Politics and a graduate level seminar on com- parative politics. He spends time in both classes discussing the results of the World Values Survey. - ROBIN VEECK SAM WOLSON/Daily Ronald Inglehart, a professor of political science, sits in his Ann Arbor home yesterday. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ ZDAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-74-0ss smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Officehours:sun.-Thurs.1a.m.-2a.m. News Tips news@michigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Letterstothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Photography Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts ection artspage@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com SportstSection sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Matt Aaronson Managing Editor aaronson@michigandaily.com lillian Berman ManagingNews Editor berman@michigandaily.com ENIORNEWSrEDITORS:Nkcole Aber, Mallory Jones, Stephanie Steinberg, Kyle SwansonEshwa,rhrunaukkaasu ASSISnANT no nD sTonS: D nt , sarrnFizgeral, Joseph Lichterman, Veronica Menal,,Annie Thomas,oDevonhorsb,Elyanna Twiggs Rachel Van Gilder Editorial Page Editor vangilder@michigandaily.com SEIOR EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS: Brian Flaherty, Erika Mayer, Emily Orley, Laura ASSISTANTEDITORIAL PAGEEDITORS:MichelleDeWitt,AlexSchiff,MatthewShutler Ryan Kartje Managing Sports Editor kartje@michigandaity.com SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS: Nicole Auerbach, Mark Burns, Gjon Juncaj, Chris Meszaros, Joe Stapleton ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS: Michael Florek, Alex Hermann, Ryan Podges, Zak Pyzik,TimRohan,AmyScarano JamieBlock ManagingArtsEditor block@michigandaily.com ASSSTNTA TSDORS:oLeahABuginSaraonJbs,arJgiKicoinMike Kuntz, KaviShekharPandey Max Collins and photo@michigandailycom SamWolson ManagingPhotoEditors SNO PHOTOEDTORORsoMULTIMEDIA: ChanelVon Habsburg-Lothringen ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORS Aaron Augsburger,Jake Fromm,Jed Moh SarahSquire and design@michigandaily.com AnnaLein-Zielinski ManagingDesignEditors SENIO00D0SIGN5E00T000 Angela Chih Trevor Calero Magazine Editor catero@michigandaily.com DEPUTY MAGAZINE EDITOR: Allie White Melanie Fried and copydesk@michigandaily.com Rachel Phillips copy chiefs BUSINESSSTAFF Katie ozwiak Sales Manager SSORoCE MANAGER: MollrTigg MA^RKETING MANAGER MichaelShrotenboer Ryan Businski classified Manager CLASSIFIED ASSISTANT MANAGER: Kayla LaFata Ben English Production Manager Allison tantacreU Layout Manager Vivian Lee Finance Manager Brittany Morales circulation Manager Brad Wiley Project coordinator The Michigan Daly (IsN 0745-%7) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and wintertermsbystudentsattheUniversityof Michigan.Onecopyisavailiablefreeofhargetoail readers.Additional copiesmay bepickedupattheDaily'sofficefor$2.Subscriptionsfor fallterm, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. 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