Over the last decades, large international datasets such as the European Social Survey (ESS), the European Value Study (EVS) and the World Value Survey (WVS) have been collected to compare value means over multiple time points and across many countries. Yet analyzing comparative survey data requires the fulfillment of specific assumptions, i.e., that these values are comparable over time and ac...

Although justice and forgiveness are generally held to be competitive constructs, increasingly, studies indicate that when justice is operationalized on the basis of its inclusive characteristics, it is compatible with forgiveness. This study (N = 142) applied a human values framework to provide a theoretical explanation for the positive association between justice (operationalized as just worl...

Values are central to public debates today. Human values convey broad goals that serve as guiding principles in a person's life and value priorities differ across people in society. Groups in society holding opposing values (e.g., universalism versus security) will make different choices when voting in an election. Whereas over time, values are relatively stable, the number and type of politica...

Social-democratic parties face a dilemma between the universalist ethos of their socialist tradition and nationalism that they share with other political actors state where act. In this paper, we examine comparatively position Spanish party Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) Catalan Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) on three debates pertains to link welfare identity in Spain. We sho...