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LCSR Partners

Ronald F. Ingleart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research is an international group that aims to study the social processes and events around the world. In order to enhance the prospects and opportunities for our research, we are actively cooperating with various research centers and educational institutions located both in Russia and abroad. Below you can find information about the organizations with which LCSR signed partnership agreements.

VTB Bank

VTB Bank – is one of the leading universal banks of Russia, founded in 1990. The second largest bank in the country by assets and the first by the size of the authorized capital.

Since 2017 VTB Bank is launching the Endowment for Comparative Social Research at the HSE University. The endowment will make it possible to invest 10-20 million roubles in research each year. The LCSR named after its co-founder, renowned sociologist and political scientist Ronald Inglehart, will receive funding from this endowment.

M.A. Program “Comparative Social Research”

The Master's programme provides students with professional research and writing skills to allow them to excel on the international professional research labour market. They will be well-qualified to build careers in academia or as experts in international organizations (and companies) such as the World Bank, International Labour Organization, OECD, UNESCO, UNICEF. Students will learn how to write scientific articles based on the analysis of empirical data and to publish these articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Programme's graduates will be well qualified to continue their careers within the Ph.D. programmes of our international partners or in collaboration with the HSE academic Ph.D. programme.

World Values Survey

The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research project that explores people’s values and beliefs, how they change over time and what social and political impact they have. It is carried out by a worldwide network of social scientists who, since 1981, have conducted representative national surveys in almost 100 countries. The WVS is the only source of empirical data on attitudes covering a majority of the world’s population (nearly 90%).

The WVS measures, monitors and analyzes: support for democracy, tolerance of foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics, national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, and subjective well-being.

The findings are valuable for policy makers seeking to build civil society and democratic institutions in developing countries. The work is also frequently used by governments around the world, scholars, students, journalists and international organizations and institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations (UNDP and UN-Habitat).

Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and the tenth President of the European Commission said about the WVS work: “The growing globalization of the world makes it increasingly important to understand [...] diversity. People with varying beliefs and values can live together and work together productively, but for this to happen it is crucial to understand and appreciate their distinctive worldviews.”

STATEC

STATEC is the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Despite the fact that STATEC’s administration is placed under the authority of the Ministry of the Economy, it is professionally and scientifically independent, i.e. it sets its own work programme in accordance with national and European statistical legislation, produces and disseminates data in complete neutrality. The Law of July 10, 2011 on the organization of the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies sets out the missions of STATEC and its internal organization. These missions are to provide a public information service of high quality to public and private decision-makers as well as to citizens. STATEC is committed to produce statistics, analyses and studies giving a detailed, reliable and objective image of the society of Luxembourg. STATEC coordinates the statistical system of Luxembourg, organized according to the principle of statistical centralization. For this purpose it widely relies on collaboration with other producers of data as well as with public and private research centers. STATEC so centralizes data available from public authorities to carry out its studies, but also to make them available to its users on a single platform. With the new law of July 10, 2011, applied scientific research is added to STATEC’s missions. Information, most of which comes from official public sector statistics, is, by definition, public property. Each citizen must have free access to this information. To enrich public debate, STATEC provides unlimited access to reliable and objective statistical information. STATEC is part of the ESS, the partnership between EUROSTAT – the Statistical Office of the European Union, the national statistical institutes (NSIs), as well as the other national statistical authorities responsible in each Member State for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics.

German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS)

German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS) was established in 1986. It consisted of three independent institutions: Social Science Information Centre, Central Archive for Empirical Research, and Centre for Survey Research and Methodology. They were integrated into one institution in 2007, and the following year the organization experienced further changes; it acquired additional name “Leibniz Institute for the Social Science” as a sign of membership in the Association Leibniz.

Now approximately 250 researchers work in various departments of the Institute placed in different cities of Germany. The activity of GESIS lies in several fields: design and methodology of surveys, monitoring society and social changes, development of social research methods, elaboration of research in the field of applied computer science and the Web. Furthermore, the Institute archives the data for doing research in social science and provides historical time-series, industrialization and social opinion data for public access. GESIS is hosting various scientific and educational events: seminars, workshops, colloquiums, conferences and summer schools. It also conducts surveys and research and publishes several scientific journals, primarily dedicated to the methodology of social research and trends of development of German society.

Eurasian Monitor

Eurasian Monitor is a system of regular cross-country opinion polling. In a profound sense, the concept of the project basically adopts and develops the ideas of Eurobarometer – an operating research program of EU – and other alike projects being held in different parts of the world (Afrobarometer, Latinobarometer and others). The prime idea of the project is regular measurement (monitoring) of main social moods of CIS countries’ citizens and, first of all, four of Single Economic Space (SES). In perspective, Eurasian Monitor is supposed to become the core of international (cross-cultural) social researches system operating in post-Soviet space.

Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM)

Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) is the oldest and leading marketing and opinion research company in the post-Soviet space. VCIOM provides the data, analysis and recommendations to its clients need to achieve their goals. VCIOM conducts the “full cycle” research – from instrument design and data collection to analysis and presentation of results to the clients, in Russia and abroad in the following fields: politics (electoral and approvement ratings, protest activity, etc.); social (education, employment, health care, family, corruption, etc.); business (finance and insurance, real estate and construction, trademarks, branding and reputation management, IT, media research, sports industry, automobile market, etc.). VCIOM is headquartered in Moscow, has offices across the whole country, as well as firm ties with the polling centers around the world (from Ukraine and Germany to Japan and China). Over the two decades their team that includes the best professionals in the areas of sociology, marketing, psychology, political science and finance has provided its expertise to over 2000 clients, representing both public and private sectors.


 

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