本书纳入了与保罗·艾布拉姆森(Paul Abramson),韦恩·贝克(Wayne Baker),罗贝托·福阿(Roberto Foa),罗纳德·查尔斯·英格尔哈特(Ronald Charles Inglehart),皮帕·诺里斯(Pippa Norris),克里斯托弗·彼得森(Christopher Peterson),爱德华·波纳林(Eduard Ponarin),雅克·拉比耶(Jacques Rabier)和克里斯蒂安·韦尔策尔(Christian Welzel)的合作成果的内容。我深深地感激这些朋友、同事,以及我的儿子,在此向他们表示我最衷心的感谢。他们实际上是这本书的共同作者。
我还要感谢那些在1981年到2014年间在100多个国家进行世界价值观调查(World Values Survey)和欧洲价值观调查(European Values Study)的工作人员,他们的工作成就了这本书。感谢下列世界价值观调查和欧洲价值观调查的主要调查员们:Anthony M. Abela, Suzanne Adams, Q. K. Ahmad, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Latif, Marchella Abrasheva, Mohammen Addahri, Alisher Aldashev, Darwish Abdulrahman Al-Emadi, Fathi Ali, Abdulrazaq Ali, Rasa Alishauskene, Helmut Anheier, Jose Arocena, Wil A. Art, Soo Young Auh, Taghi Azadarmaki, Ljiljana Bacevic, Olga Balakireva, Josip Baloban, David Barker, Miguel Basanez, Elena Bashkirova, Abdallah Bedaida, Jorge Benitez, Jaak Billiet, Alan Black, Eduard Bomhoff, Ammar Boukhedir, Rahma Bourquia, Fares al Braizat, Lori Bramwell-Jones, Michael Breen, Ziva Broder, Thawilwadee Bureekul, Karin Bush, Harold Caballeros, Manuel Villaverde, Richard Bachia-Caruana, Claudio Calvaruso, Pavel Campeaunu, Augustin Canzani, Giuseppe Capraro, Marita Carballo, Andres Casas, Henrique Carlos de O. de Castro, Pi-Chao Chen, Pradeep Chhibber, Mark F. Chingono, Hei-yuan Chiu, Vincent Chua, Margit Cleveland, Mircea Comsa, Munqith Dagher, Andrew P. Davidson, Herman De Dijn, Ruud de Moor, Pierre Delooz, Peter J. D. Derenth, Abdel Nasser Djabi, Karel Dobbelaere, Hermann Duelmer, Javier Elzo, Yilmaz Esmer, Paul Estgen, Tony Fahey, Nadjematul Faizah, Tair Faradov, Roberto Stefan Foa, Michael Fogarty, Georgy Fotev, Juis de Franca, Aikaterini Gari, Ilir Gedeshi, James Georgas, C. Geppaart, Bilai Gilani, Mark Gill, Stjepan Gredlj, Renzo Gubert, Linda Luz Guerrero, Peter Gundelach, David Sulmont Haak, Christian Haerpfer, Abdelwahab Ben Hafaiedh, Jacques Hagenaars, Loek Halman, Mustafa Hamarneh, Tracy Hammond, Sang-Jin Han, Elemer Hankiss, Olafur Haraldsson, Stephen Harding, Mari Harris, Pierre Hausman, Bernadette C. Hayes, Gordon Heald, Camilo Herrera, Felix Heunks, Virginia Hodgkinson, Nadra Muhammed Hosen, Joan Rafel Mico Ibanez, Kenji Iijima, Fr. Joe Inganuez, Ljubov Ishimova, Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Meril James, Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, Fridrik Jonsson, Dominique Joye, Stanislovas Juknevicius, Salue Kalikova, Tatiana Karabchuk, Kieran Kennedy, Jan Kerkhofs S. J., J. F. Kielty, Johann Kinghorn, Hans-Dieter Kilngemann, Renate Kocher, Joanna Konieczna, Hennie Kotze, Hanspeter Kriesi, Miori Kurimura, Zuzana Kusá, Marta Lagos, Bernard Lategan, Michel Legrand, Carlos Lemoine, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Juan Linz, Ola Listhaug, Jin-yun Liu, Leila Lotti, Ruud Lijkx, Susanne Lundasen, Brina Malnar, Heghine Manasyan, Robert Manchin, Mahar Mangahas, Mario Marinov, Mira Marody, Carlos Matheus, Robert Mattes, Ian McAllister, Rafael Mendizabal, Jon Miller, Felipe Miranda, Mansoor Moaddel, Mustapha Mohammed, Jose Molina, Alejandro Moreno, Gaspar K. Munishi, Naasson Munyandamutsa, Kostas Mylonas, Neil Nevitte, Chun Hung Ng, Simplice Ngampou, Juan Diez Nicolas, Jaime Medrano Nicolas, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Pippa Norris, Elone Nwabuzor, Stephen Olafsson, Francisco Andres Orizo, Magued Osman, Merab Pachulia, Christina Paez, Alua Pankhurst, Dragomir Pantic, Juhani Pehkonen, Paul Perry, E. Petersen, Antoanela Petkovska, Doru Petruti, Thorleif Pettersson, Pham Minh Hac, Pham Thanh Nghi, Timothy Phillips, Gevork Pogosian, Eduard Ponarin, Lucien Pop, Bi Puranen, Ladislav Rabusic, Andrei Raichev, Alice Ramos, Anu Realo, Jan Rehak, Helene Riffault, Ole Riis, Angel Rivera-Ortiz, Nils Rohme, Catalina Romero, Gergely Rosta, David Rotman, Victor Roudometof, Giancario Rovati, Samir Abu Ruman, Andrus Saar, Rajab Sattarov, Rahmat Seigh, Tan Ern Ser, Sandeep Shastri, Shen Mingming, Musa Shteivi, Renata Siemienska, Maria Silvestre Cabrera, Richard Sinnott, Alan Smith, Jean Stoetzel, Kancho Stoichev, Marin Stoychev, John Sudarsky, Edward Sullivan, Marc Swyngedouw, Tang Ching-Ping, Farooq Tanwir, Jean-Francois Tchernia, Kareem Tejumola, Noel Timms, Larissa Titarenko, Miklos Tomka, Alfredo Torres, Niko Tos, Istvan Gyorgy Toth, Joseph Troisi, Tu Su-hao, Claudiu Tufis, Jorge Vala, Andrei Vardomatskii, David Voas, Bogdan Voicu, Malina Voicu, Liliane Voye, Richard M. Walker, Alan Webster, Friedrich Welsch, Christian Welzel, Meidam Wester, Chris Whelan, Robert Worcester, Seiko Yamazaki, Birol Yesilada, Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Josefina Zaiter, Catalin Zamfir, Brigita Zepa, Ignacio Zuasnabar and Paul Zulehner。他们创建和分享了如此丰富和复杂的数据集。
本书使用的世界价值观调查和欧洲价值观调查的数据,由1981年到2014年间在105个国家进行的358次调查组成,这些调查覆盖了全球超过90%的人口。本书也使用了由雅克—勒内·拉比耶(Jacques-Rene Rabier)在1970年发起的欧洲晴雨表调查(Euro-Barometer Surveys)的数据。欧洲晴雨表调查是欧洲价值观调查、世界价值观调查以及其他许多跨国调查的样本,也是价值观调查中使用的关键项目的来源。扬·克尔克霍夫斯(Jan Kerkhofs)和吕德·德·穆尔(Ruud de Moor)组织了欧洲价值观调查,并邀请我在世界其他地方组织相似的调查,这促成了世界价值观调查的创立。杰米·迪亚兹·梅德兰诺(Jaime Diez Medrano)归档了世界价值观调查和欧洲价值观调查的数据集,并使它们可供几十万用户使用,这些用户可从世界价值观调查和欧洲价值观调查的网页上分析和下载数据。
我十分感谢琼·米勒(Jon Miller),威廉·齐默尔曼(William Zimmerman),亚瑟·卢皮亚(Arthur Lupia),肯尼斯·科尔曼(Kenneth Kollman),以及其他密歇根大学的同事,他们提供了宝贵的意见和建议。我也十分感谢安娜·科特(Anna Cotter)和杨玉琼(音译,Yujeong Yang)卓越的研究协助,以及美国国家科学基金会(U. S. National Science Foundation)、瑞典和荷兰外交部,它们支持了世界价值观调查组在数个国家的多轮田野调查。我还要感谢俄罗斯教育和科学部(Russian Ministry of Education and Science)提供的拨款,使我们得以在莫斯科和圣彼得堡高等经济学院(Higher School of Economics in Moscow and St. Petersburg)建立比较社会研究实验室,并使得2011年在俄罗斯及其他原苏联加盟共和国进行的世界价值观调查成为可能。这项研究是由俄罗斯学术卓越项目“5-100计划”资助的。我有幸担任密歇根大学的艾美与埃兰·洛温斯坦民主与人权讲座(Amy and Alan Loewenstein Professorship in Democracy and Human Rights)教职,这对这项研究工作极有助益。