March 27, 2014 (Thursday)

NRU HSE Guest House (1): 7 Vavilova St., NRU HSE Guest House

NRU HSE Guest House (2): Pereyaslavskaya St., NRU HSE Guest House

Hotel “Slavyanka”: Suvorovskaya sq., 2 building 3

• 15:00–23:00 Participants’ arrival

March 28, 2014 (Friday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.

Room 101

• 9:00 – 9:30 Registration

Opening Session

• 9:30 – 10:00 Opening Speech by first Vice Rector Vadim Radaev (NRU HSE, Moscow) and Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, LCSR NRU HSE, St. Petersburg)

Working Session 1: Disentangling Trust, General and Institutional Trust

Moderator: Leonid Kosals (NRU HSE, Moscow)

10:00 – 10:20 Anna Almakaeva (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow), Nicolas Griesshaber (Humboldt University Berlin) – Disentangling Trust and Perceived Trustworthiness. Towards a more distinguished analysis of trust (Progress Report)   Presentation

10:20 – 10:40 Questions and discussion

10:40 – 11:00 Balazs Telegdy (“Sapientia” Hungarian University of Transylvania; University of Bucharest, Doctoral School of Sociology) – The interconnection between the institutional trust and welfare attitudes in the former communist countries of Europe (Progress Report)   Presentation

11:00 – 11:20 Questions and discussion

11:20 – 11:35 Ekaterina Selezneva (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany) et al. - Internet, mass media and social capital (New Project)   Presentation

11:35 – 11:50 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Christopher Swader, Francesco Sarracino, Anna Nemirovskaya

• 11:50 – 12:10 Coffee break

Plenary Session 1: Diversity, Segregation and Trust

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

12:10 – 12:50 Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland, USA) - Diversity, Segregation, and Trust (Key Lecture)   Presentation

12:50 – 13:10 Questions and discussion

• 13:10 – 14:30 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working session 2: Modernization, Values Change and Racial Intolerance

Moderator: Francesco Sarracino (STATEC, Luxemburg; GESIS, Germany)

14:30 – 14:45 Ekaterina Lytkina (LCSR NRU HSE), Andreas Zick (Interdisciplinary Institute for Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany) - Alienation and group-focused enmity in European context (New Project)   Presentation

14:45 – 15:00 Questions and discussion

15:00 – 15:15 Andreas Hoevermann, Eva Gross (Interdisciplinary Institute for Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany) - Institutions and Marketized Mentality – A Multi-Level Analysis of Assumptions of Institutional Anomie Theory with Data of the European Social Survey (New Project) 

15:15 – 15:30 Questions and discussion

15:30 – 15:50 Maria Ravlik (Georg August University Goettingen, Germany) – A Cross-National Evaluation of the Sources of Anti-Trafficking Enforcement and Migrant Vulnerability to Trafficking (Final Report)   Presentation

15:50 – 16:10 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Hermann Duelmer, Christopher Swader

• 16:10 – 16:30 Coffee Break

Working Session 3: Perceived legitimacy, distrust in public institutions and corruption

Moderator: Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR NRU HSE, St. Petersburg)

16:30 – 16:45 Honorata Mazepus (Leiden University, Netherlands) - Perceived legitimacy of national authorities in comparative perspective: Evaluating political authorities in democratic and mixed regimes (New Project)

16:45 – 17:00 Questions and discussion

17:00 – 17:15 Maria Kravtsova (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow), Aleksey Oshchepkov (CLMS HSE, Moscow) - Distrust in Public Institutions, Interpersonal Trust and Corruption (New Project)   Presentation

17:15 – 17:30 Questions and discussion

17:30 – 17:45 Anastasia Dubova (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow) - Corruption and balance between public and private interests: micro-, meso- and macro- levels (New Project)   Presentation

17:45 – 18:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Anna Almakaeva, Eric Uslaner

March 29, 2014 (Saturday)

20 Myasnitskaya Str.

room 101

Working Session 4: Corruption

Moderator: Andrey Shcherback (LCSR HSE)

10:00 – 10:20 Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland, USA) - The Bulging Pocket and the Rule of Law: Corruption, Inequality, and Trust (Guest Paper)   Presentation

10:20 – 10:40 Questions and discussion

10:40 – 11:00 Maria Kravtsova (LCSR HSE, Moscow), Aleksey Oshchepkov(CLMS HSE, Moscow) – Of two Evils Choose the Lesser: Network and Market Corruption? (Progress Report)   Presentation

11:00 – 11:20 Questions and discussion

11:20 – 11:35 Tatiana Karabchuk, Ruslan Almuhametov (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow) - Propensity for Corruption in Police: comparative study of Russia, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Latvia (New Project)   Presentation

11:35 – 11:50 Questions and discussion
Discussants: Leonid Kosals, Christian Welzel

• 11:50 – 12:10 Coffee break

Plenary Session 2: Explaining Corruption

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

12:10 – 12:40 Arye Rattner (University of Haifa, Israel) - Macro and Micro Perspectives Explaining Corruption Is Something Missining (Key Lecture)   Presentation

12:40 – 13:10 Questions and discussion

• 13:10 – 14:30 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working Session 5: Trust in Police

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE Moscow)

14:00 – 14:15 Anna Almakaeva (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow), Christopher Swader (NRU HSE, Moscow) - Trust in police (New Project)   Presentation

14:15 – 14:30 Questions and discussion

14:30 – 14:45 Domanov Alexey (MGIMO, Moscow) - Trust in the Police: Interaction and Stereotypes (New Project)

14:45 – 15:00 Questions and discussion

15:00 – 15:15 Anastasia Dubova (LCSR HSE, Moscow) - What Makes People Feel Safe? The Role of the Police (New Project)   Presentation

15:15 – 15:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Alexei Oshchepkov, Eric Uslaner

• 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break

Working Session 6: Corruption, Crime and Police

Moderator: Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland, USA)

16:00 – 16:15 Christopher Swader (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow) – Loneliness and Urbanization in Europe: A Multilevel Approach (Senior Research Proposal)   Presentation

16:15 – 16:30 Questions and discussion

16:30 – 16:50 Aleksey Domanov (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Commitment to Nationalism: Predictors of Popular Political Euroscepticism about Common Immigration Policy in the EU (Progress Report)   Presentation

16:50 – 17:10 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Ronald Inglehart, Ekaterina Selezneva

Guest Presentation on project FP7 ArabTrans

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE, Moscow)

17:20 – 17:45 Cristian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Kseniya Kizilova (University of Aberdeen, UK) – Political and Social Transformations in the Arab World

17:45 – 18:00 Questions and discussion

 

March 30, 2014 (Sunday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.

room 101

Working Session 7: Happiness and Subjective well-being

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

10:00 – 10:20 Irina Vartanova (IFS, Stockholm) – Subjective Well-Being of Knowledge Workers: Multilevel Analysis (Progress Report)   Presentation

10:20 – 10:40 Questions and discussion

10:40 – 11:00 Markus Kainu (University of Turku) – Attributions for Poverty in Post-Socialist Countries (Progress Report)

11:00 – 11:20 Questions and discussion

11:20 – 11:40 Roberto Foa (Harvard University), Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Governance of the Frontier (Progress Report)   Presentation

11:40 – 12:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Eduard Ponarin, Ksenia Kizilova

• 12:00 – 12:20 Coffee break

Plenary Session 3: Happiness in economic systems and context in Multilevel analysis

Moderator: Ronald Inglehart (LCSR NRU HSE, St. Petersburg)

12:20 – 13:00 Francesco Sarracino (STATEC, Luxembourg; GESIS, Germany) – For a socially sustainable economic system (Key Lecture)

12:50 – 13:30 Questions and discussion

• 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working Session 8: Loneliness and Subjective Well-Being

Moderator: Hermann Duelmer (GESIS, Cologne)

14:30 – 14:45 Małgorzata Mikucka (Universite catholiqu´e de Louvain Belgium), Francesco Sarracino (STATEC Luxembourg, GESIS, Germany) – How do economic growth and social capital shape subjective well-being? Old question, new method (New Project)

14:45 – 15:00 Questions and discussion

15:00 – 15:15 Tugba Zaydanli (Paris School of Economics and Nova School of Business and Economics) - Elections and Subjective Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa (New Project)

15:15 – 15:30 Questions and discussion

15:30 – 15:50 Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR HSE, St Petersburg) – Standards of Life and Subjective Well-being in the Regions of Russia (Progress Report)   Presentation

15:50 – 16:05 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Tatiana Karabchuk, Christian Welzel

• 16:05 – 16:20 Coffee break

Working Session 9:

Moderator: Christian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen)

16:20 – 16:35 Leonid Kosals et al. (NRU HSE, Moscow) – Which Social Networks Turn into Social Capital? Evidence from Estonia, Kazakhstan and Russia (New Project)

16:35 – 16:50 Questions and discussion

16:50 – 17:10 Fabio Sabatini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Online Networking, Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being (Progress Report)

17:10 – 17:30 Questions and discussion

17:30 – 17:45 Francesco Sarracino (STATEC, Luxembourg; GESIS, Germany) - Economic growth, social capital and poverty traps (Senior Researcher Proposal)

17:45 – 18:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Anna Almakaeva, Hermann Duelmer

March 31, 2014 (Monday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.

room 101

Working session 10: Modernization, stratification and values

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE Moscow)

10:00 – 10:20 Alexander Seymer (University of Salzburg) - Stratification and Values – potential for an integrated measure of societal position? (Progress Report)   Presentation

10:20 – 10:40 Questions and discussion

10.40 – 10.55 Margarita Zavadskaya (European University Institute, Florence), Aleksey Gilev (Center for Comparative History and Political Studies (CCHPS), Perm State National Research University)–What makes everyday clientelism? Modernization, institutions, and values (New Project)   Presentation

10:55 – 11:10 Questions and discussion

11.10 – 11.25 Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) - The deep structure of values: How grammar determines attitude (New Project)

11:25 – 11:40 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Christian Haerpfer, Peter Schmidt

• 11:40 – 12:00 Coffee break

Plenary Session 4: Modernization, Values and (In) equality

Moderator: Peter Schmidt (University of Gissen)

12:00 – 12:40 Hermann Duelmer (GESIS, Cologne) - Modernization, Culture and Morality in Europe: Universalism, Contextualism or Relativism? (Key Lecture)   Presentation

12:40 – 13:00 Questions and discussion

13:00 – 13:40 Jan Delhey (Jacobs University, Germany) - Is equality better? Some remarks and empirical findings on the Spirit-Level-theory (Key Lecture)

13:40 – 14:00 Questions and discussion

• 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working Session 11: Preferences for redistribution and perception of inequality

Moderator: Vladimir Magun (Institute of Sociology RAS, NRU HSE, Moscow)

15:00 – 15:15 Irina Denisova (CEFIR, New Economic School, Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI), Russian Academy of Science , Moscow) – Preferences for Redistribution in Post-Comunist countries (Guest Paper)   Presentation

15:15 – 15:30 Questions and discussion

15:30 – 15:45 Eiji Yamamura (Seinan Gakuin University, Japan) - Subjective perceptions about inequality, redistribution, and tax burden: a comparative analysis (New Project)   Presentation

15:45 – 16:00 Questions and discussion

16:00 – 16:15 Vladimir Gimpelson (CLMS HSE, Moscow), Galina Monusova (Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS) and NRU HSE) – Perception of Inequality and Social Mobility (Guest Paper)   Presentation

16:15 – 16:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Jan Delhey, Hermann Duelmer

• 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

Working Session 12: Social Justice and Perceptions about Inequality

Moderator: Christian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen)

17:00 – 17:20 Julia Zelikova (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Welfare State, Well-being and Social Justice (Final Report)   Presentation

17:20 – 17:40 Questions and discussion

17:40 – 18:00 Olga Gryaznova (European University Institute, Florence) – Social position, values and support of different government welfare programs. A comparison of six types of welfare cultures (Progress Report)   Presentation

18:00 – 18:20 Questions and discussion

18:20 – 18:40 Yuri Savelyev (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine) – Modernization and Variations in Values Change in European Societies in 1995-2008 (Progress Report) 

18:40 – 19:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Roberto Foa, Ronald Inglehart

• 19:00 – 22:00 Reception (room 300)

April 1, 2014 (Tuesday)

Azimut Moscow Olympic 4*

HSE conference

Opening ceremony, plenary sessions

• 9.00 - 16.00 registration for HSE conference

Plenary session within HSE conference

“Cultural Evolution and Modernization”

Moderator: Evgeniy Yasin (HSE, Moscow)

16:00 – 16:30 Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA; NRU HSE, Russia) - Cultural Evolution and the Raising Acceptability of Gender Equality, Divorce, Abortion and Homosexuality, 1981-2012: From Fertility-maximizing Norms to Individual-choice Norms

16:30 – 17:00 Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Germany; NRU HSE, Russia) - From Sacrificing Life to Living It: An Opportunity-based Theory of Moral Evolution   Presentation

17:00 – 17:30 Christian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen, UK) - Cultural, Social and Economic Values and Modernization in Russian and CIS, 1994-2012 (together with Ksenia Kizilova)

17:30 – 18:00 Evgeniy Yasin (NRU HSE, Russia) - The Impact of Culture on Modernization in Russia

Discussants: Jan Dehley (Jacobs University, Germany), Eduard Ponarin (NRU HSE, St. Petersburg)

April 2, 2014 (Wednesday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.

room 101

Public Honoured Lecture: Cultural Change And The Decline Of Violence: Economic Development and the Long Peace

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (HSE, St. Petersburg) 

10:00 – 11:00 Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, LCSR NRU HSE, St. Petersburg) - Cultural Change And The Decline Of Violence: Economic Development and the Long Peace

11:00 – 11:30 Questions and discussion

• 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

Plenary Session 6: Human values and value changes

Moderator: Musa Shteiwi (Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan)

12:00 – 12:40 Peter Schmidt et al. (University of Giessen, Germany) – Human values, legal regulation, and approval of homosexuality in Europe: A cross-country comparison (Public Lecture)

12:40 – 13:00 Questions and discussion

13:00 – 13:40 Christian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen) – A New Post-Soviet Value System or Old Values in New Clothes? 20 years of Cultural, Religious and Social Value Changes in Russia and the CIS (Public Lecture)

13:40 – 14:00 Questions and discussion

• 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working Session 13: Gender Attitudes and Gender Inequality

Moderator: Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland)

17:00 – 17:15 Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Gender attitudes in post-crisis Europe (Progress Report) 

17:15 – 17:30 Questions and discussion

17:30 – 17:45 Veronika Kostenko (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (evidence from the EVS data) (Progress Report)   Presentation

17:45 – 18:00 Questions and discussion

18:00 – 18:15 Musa Shteiwi (Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan) – Attitudes towards Gender Equality in the Arab Countries (Guest Paper)

18:15 – 18:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Margolzata Mikucka, Ronald Inglehart

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

Working Session 14: Religiosity, Work Ethic and Attitudes

Moderator: Christopher Swader (HSE, Moscow)

17:00 – 17:15 Anna Shirokanova (Belarus State University, Minsk) - Islamic Work Ethic? In Search of Empirical Evidence in the WVS (Final Report)   Presentation

17:15 – 17:30 Questions and discussion

17:30 – 17:45 Olga Popova (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany) – Suffer for the Faith? The Impact of Parental Religiosity on Children’s Health (Progress Report)   Presentation

17:45 – 18:00 Questions and discussion

18:00 – 18:15 Adrian Wojcik (Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw) – The religious sources of pro-environmental attitudes (Progress Report)

18:15 – 18:30 Questions and discussion

18:30 – 18:45 Kirill Zhirkov (LCSR HSE, St.Petersburg)– Looking for a Universal Measure of Religiosity: A Latent Variable Approach (New Project)  Presentation

18:45 – 19:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Elena Prutskova, Eduard Ponarin

• 12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break

April 3, 2014 (Thursday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.

room 101

Working Session 15:

Moderator: Christian Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen)

10:00 – 10:15 Anna Andreenkova (CESSI Institute for Comparative Social Research) - Understanding and evaluation of democracy in Europe and Russia (Guest Paper)  Presentation

10:15 – 10:30 Questions and discussion

10:30 – 10:45 Boris Sokolov (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Polarization Measurement through Ordered Latent Class Analysis (Progress Report)   Presentation

10:45 – 11:00 Questions and discussion

11:00 – 11:15 Rengin B. Firat (University of Lyon, France) - Coalitional psychology: the missing link between ethnic polarization and well-being (New Project)

11:15 – 11:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Kirill Zhirkov, Eduard Ponarin

• 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

Plenary Session 7: Author meets critiques

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR NRU HSE)

12:00 – 12:40 Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation (Public Lecture)  Presentation

12:40 – 13:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants and critics: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Christopher Swader, Peter Schmidt, Efthymios Athanasiou, Paul Dower

• 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)

Working Session 16:

Moderator: Francesco Sarracino (STATEC, Luxemburg; GESIS, Germany)

15:00 – 15:15 Svitlana Khutka (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Ukraine) - Civic Political Involvement: Values and Protest Behaviour in Ukraine and Post-Socialist Societies (Progress Report)   Presentation

15:15 – 15:30 Questions and discussion

15:30 – 15:45 Dmytro Khutkyy (Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine) – Proactive Orientation and Individual Activism as Causes of Personal Achievement and Subjective Well-Being (Progress Report)   Presentation

15:45 – 16:00 Questions and discussion

16:00 – 16:15 Zhandos Ybrayev (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) - What factors explain divergent paths of political regimes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan? (New Project)

16:15 – 16:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Boris Sokolov, Christian Haerpfer

• 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

Plenary Session 8: Support of Democracy

Moderator: Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Luneburg; LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

17:00 – 17:45 Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Germany) – On “Dissatisfied Democrats” Support of Democracy in Europe 1999-2008 (Public Lecture)

17:45 – 18:30 Questions and discussion

April 4, 2014 (Friday)

20 Myasnitskaya St.,

room 101

Working session 17:

Moderator: Peter Schmidt (University of Gissen)

10:00 – 10:15 Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR NRU HSE, Moscow) – Job stability and fertility in Europe: do the labour market institutions have any impact? (New Project)   Presentation

10:15 – 10:30 Questions and discussion

10.30 – 10.45 Margolzata Mikucka (Universite catholiqu´e de Louvain Belgium), Parenthood and life satisfaction. Russia in comparative perspective (Senior Researcher Proposal)

10:45 – 11:00 Questions and discussion

11:00 – 11:15 Anna Ryabchikova (LCSR HSE, Moscow)– Mismatch between desired fertility and observed fertility: cross-cultural comparison (New Project)    Presentation

11:15 – 11:30 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Natalia Soboleva, Vladimir Kozlov 

• 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

Working Session 18: Genetic Adaptation to Environment and healthy life

Moderator: Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR NRU HSE, St. Petersburg)

12:00 – 12:15 Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR NRUHSE, St. Petersburg) - Does Food Matter? Genetic Adaptation to Environment: The Effect of Food Intolerances on Cultural Change (New Project) 

12:15 – 12:30 Questions and discussion

12:30 – 12:45 Vladimir Kozlov (HSE, Moscow) - The main determinants of the healthy life at the age of 60 and older (New Project)

12:45 – 13:00 Questions and discussion

Discussants: Eduard Ponarin, Hans-Dieter Klingemann

Closing Session

13:00 – 13:30 Closing Speech by Eduard Ponarin, Tatiana Karabchuk

• 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch (café “MU-MU”)
• Participants’ departure

April 5, 2014

NRU HSE Guest House (1): 7 Vavilova St., NRU HSE Guest House

NRU HSE Guest House (2): Pereyaslavskaya St., NRU HSE Guest House

Hotel “Slavyanka”: Suvorovskaya sq., 2 building 3

• Before 11.00 Participants’ check out from the hotels