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ISSP bibliography

The ISSP bibliography records publications using ISSP data. The bibliography now contains more than 12,000 publications and continues to grow as researchers share new work with us.

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ISSP in the International Journal of Sociology

Since 2017, the International Journal of Sociology publishes an annual special issue on the latest ISSP data. Explore the special issues below:

Family and Changing Gender Roles V: (forthcoming)
Health and Health Care II: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/56/3
Environment IV: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/54/5-6?nav=tocList
Social Inequality V: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/53/5
Religion IV: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/51/5
Social Networks III: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/50/1?nav=tocList
Role of Government V: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/49/2?nav=tocList
Work Orientations IV: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/48/2?nav=tocList
Citizenship II: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mijs20/47/1?nav=tocList

Selection of recent ISSP Journal articles

Steinmetz, S., Sapin, M., Albien, A. J., & Nisple, K. (2025). Introduction to the special issue: 40 years of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). International Journal of Sociology, 55(6), 403–408. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2025.2584860

Hadler, M., Fairbrother, M., González, R., Johansson Sevä, I., Liao, P. S., Méndez Lago, M., & Schweighart, M. (2024). Environmentalism around the globe: An introduction to the 2020 ISSP Environment Module and selected country-level findings. International Journal of Sociology, 54(5–6), 309–333. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2024.2419695

Roberts, B. J., Struwig, J., Edlund, J., & Lindh, A. (2023). The ISSP 2019 Social Inequality Module: Country-comparative individual-level data on public beliefs about inequality and socioeconomic conditions over three decades. International Journal of Sociology, 53(5), 333–350. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2023.2242212

Smith, T. W., & Schapiro, B. (2021). The International Social Survey Program modules on religion, 1991–2018. International Journal of Sociology, 51(5), 337–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2021.1976471

Lilia Dimova & Martin Dimov (2021) Religion and Ethnicity: Paradoxes and Scientific Challenges, International Journal of Sociology, 51:5, 360-374, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2021.1964273

Yan Wang, Hao Feng & Yunxia Liu (2021) Pro-environmental behavior in an aging world: Evidence from 31 countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:4, 1-13, DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18041748.

Peter V. Marsden,Tom W. Smith & Michael Hout (2020) Tracking US social change over a half-century: The general social survey at fifty. Annual Review of Sociology, 46, 109-134. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054838

Marlène Sapin, Dominique Joye, Christof Wolf, Johannes Andersen, Yanjie Bian, Ali Carkoglu, Yang-Chi Fu, Ersin Kalaycioglu, Peter V. Marsden, and Tom W. Smith (2020) The ISSP 2017 social networks and social resources module, International Journal of Sociology, 50:1, 1-25, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2020.1712157

Jonas Edlund & Arvid Lindh (2019) The ISSP 2016 Role of Government Module: Content, Coverage, and History, International Journal of Sociology, 49:2, 99-109, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2019.1582963

Regina Jutz, Evi Scholz, Michael Braun & Markus Hadler (2018) The ISSP 2015 Work Orientations IV Module, International Journal of Sociology, 48:2, 95-102, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2018.1446115

Evi Scholz, Regina Jutz, Jon H. Pammett & Markus Hadler (2017) ISSP and the ISSP 2014 Citizenship II Module: An Introduction, International Journal of Sociology, 47:1, 1-9, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2017.1264825

ISSP anthologies

Telešienė, A., Groß, M., & Hadler, M. (Eds.). (2026). Green European Revisited: Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in the Face of the Polycrisis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-18360-6

Markus Hadler, Benjamin Roberts, Jarè Struwig, Jonas Edlund, Arvid Lindh and Albin Neumayr, eds., Beliefs About Inequality Around the Globe. Insights from the International Social Survey Programme. New York: Routledge, 2025

Audrone Telesiene and Matthias Gross, eds., Green European : Environmental behaviour and attitudes in Europe in a historical and cross-cultural comparative perspective. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2017

Jonas Edlund, Insa Bechert and Markus Quandt, eds., Social Inequality in the Eyes of the Public. A Collection of Analyses based on ISSP Data 1987-2009. GESIS Schriftenreihe 17. Cologne: GESIS, 2017

Annamari Konttinen, ed., Civic Mind and Good Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2009

Max Haller, Roger Jowell, and Tom W. Smith, eds., Charting the Globe: The International Social Survey Programme, 1984-2009. London: Routledge, 2009

Betty Hillard and Máire Nic Ghiolla Phádraig, eds., Changing Ireland in International Comparison. Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2007

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, and Robert M. Kunovich, eds. “Pro-democratic values in cross-national perspective.” Special issue of the International Journal of Sociology 32.1 (2002), 1-108.

Niko Tos, Peter Ph. Mohler and Brina Malnar, eds., Modern Society and Values. A Comparative Analysis Based on ISSP Project.Ljubljana: FSS, University of Ljubljana; Mannheim: ZUMA, 1999

Roger Jowell, John Curtice, Alison Park, Lindsay Brook, Katrina Thomson, and Caroline Bryson, eds., British – and European – Social Attitudes: The 15th BSA Report . Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998

Alan Frizzell and Jon H. Pammett, eds., Shades of Green. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997

Alan Frizzell and Jon H. Pammett, eds., Social Inequality in Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996

Roger Jowell, Lindsay Brook, and Lizanne Dowds, eds., International Social Attitudes: The 10th BSA Report. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1993

J.W. Becker, James A. Davis, Peter Ester, and Peter P. Mohler, eds., Attitudes to Inequality and the Role of Government. Rijswijk, The Netherlands: Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 1990

Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon, and Lindsay Brook, eds., British Social Attitudes: Special International Report. Aldershot: Gower, 1989