Fulbright Scholar lecture at UC

The University of Canterbury is hosting a lecture by Fulbright Distinguished US Scholar Professor Ronald Inglehart, Director of the World Values Survey which measures political and socio-cultural change in societies around the world.

The World Values Survey has charted increasing happiness in most countries over the past two decades and this year ranked New Zealand 15th of 52 countries surveyed, one place ahead of the United States.

The topic of his free public lecture at UC will be: “Changing Mass Attitudes and Democracy”. He will discuss how the basic values of publics around the world are changing in ways that lead them to give increasingly high priority to individual autonomy and free choice.

Combined with increasing levels of education these changes have given rise to increasingly widespread and effective demands for changes to democracy from authoritarian rule.

Date: Monday 17 November

Time: 11am

Venue: Commerce 013