LCSR Partners

Below you can find information about the organizations with which LCSR signed partnership agreements.

M.A. Program “Comparative Social Research”

The Master’s programme provides students with the theoretical and methodological skills they need to investigate and analyse similarities and differences among nations, cultures, and other social groups in order to understand the evolution of contemporary societies, social issues, and conflicts around the globe. The programme examines sociology from a global perspective and is addressed to those who are interested in understanding how people's actions affect social life and what impacts the decisions and self-identification of individuals and groups in different cultures, regions and circumstances. The program includes theoretical disciplines and methodological courses, lectures and workshops by foreign teachers and specialists. Master’s students take part in international research projects, participate in research internships, either in Russia or at one of the partner institutions abroad. Programme’s alumni are well-qualified to build careers in academia or as experts in international organizations and companies. 

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.

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.

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 various characteristics of social life in different countries, such as the level of happiness and subjective well-being, trust, and social capital, the prevalence of various values, the role of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of globalization on various aspects of social life, attitudes towards work, family, politics, culture, etc.