Program

16th CSWR International Workshop
“Recent Advances in Comparative Study of Values”

16-19 November 2026

16 November, Monday

14:00 – 15:30 / Honorary paper by Misho Minkov (Varna University of Management, Bulgaria; CSWR HSE) 

"Validating Exclusionism as a Facet of Cultural Collectivism"

Chair: Anna Almakaeva (CSWR HSE)

16:00 – 17:30 / Value Change, Political Change and Russia

Chair: Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE) 

Nikita Zubarev (CSWR HSE). "Police Contact as a Factor of Justice System Attitudes in Russia: Evidence from Russian Social Survey"

Vladimir Kostromin (CSWR HSE). "Conditions for the formation of the "sweep effect" under MNTV: The case of Russian Municipal Elections"

Alexey Sorbale(HSE SPb), Sofia Vazhenina (HSE SPb), Polina Mironova (HSE SPb), Ekaterina Melnikova (HSE SPb). "Soft “package”: an analysis of the transposition of EAEU environmental standards in Russia"

17:45 – 19:00 / Theory, Methodology, Science

Chair: Nikita Zubarev (CSWR HSE) 

Peter Meylahs (CSWR HSE). "Modernization Theory: A Multidisciplinary Critique"

Yulia Moreva (CSWR HSE). "Trends of the Bibliometric Indicators in the Context of the Introduction of Restrictive Policy Measures"

Vorchik Andrey (HSE). "Why Growing Incomes Do Not Make People Happier: an Emotional Explanation of the Easterlin Paradox"

17 November, Tuesday

12:00 – 13:45 / Value Change and Subjective Well-being

Chair: Eduard Ponarin (CSWR HSE)

Ekaterina Nastina (CSWR HSE). "Structural Configurations of Well-Being: A Cross-National Latent Profile Analysis"

Dmitrii Kislitsyn (CSWR HSE). "Two Sides of Health: How Inglehart and Schwartz Cultural Dimensions Relate to Functioning and Experiential Health Weights in Health-Related Quality of Life"

Vladimir Magun (Institute of Sociology FCTAS RAS, HSE), Marharyta Fabrykant (HSE, BSU). "Europeans' typology by life satisfaction dimensions"

13:45 – 15:00 / Break

15:00 – 16:45 / Studying Stability and Risks

Chair: Kira Legut (CSWR HSE)

Vadim Ustyuzhanin (HSE), Arthur Musaev (CSWR HSE). "When the Authoritarian Social Contract Breaks: Values and Electoral Strategies"

Egor Fain (HSE), Daniil Goncharenko (HSE), Vadim Ustyuzhanin (HSE). "Us, Them, and the Army: Affective Polarization and Military Coups"

Vadim Ustyuzhanin (HSE). "Labeling Dissent: Foreign-Agent Designation and Authoritarian Information Control"

17:05 – 18:50 / Honorary paper by Viyaleta Korsunava (CSWR HSE), Boris Sokolov (CSWR HSE).

"Measurement Invariance in Comparative Web Surveys: Evidence from the Values in Crisis Project"

Chair: Moreva Yulia (CSWR HSE)

18 November, Wednesday

12:00 – 13:45 / Gender, Migration and Education

Chair: Eduard Ponarin

Kira Legut (CSWR HSE). "Cross-country Specificities of Migrant Adaptation: Analysis of Discussions in Online Communities of Russians in Georgia and Germany"

Anna Almakaeva (CSWR HSE), Ilya Danilenko (CSWR HSE). "Education without Trust? Empirical Evidence from Russian regional data"

Tatiana Karabchuk (UAE University), Afra Al Nuaimi (UAE University). "Gender Equality Values, Number of Children and National Value Climate: multilevel modeling over MENA countries"

13:45 – 15:00 / Break

15:00 – 16:45 / Value Change and Political Developments

Chair: Ekaterina Nastina (CSWR HSE)

Vladimir Magun (Institute of Sociology FCTAS RAS, HSE), Artem Zemtsov (HSE). "Existential Insecurity As a Factor of Acceptance of a Strongman leadership in European countries"

Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE). "Political Attitudes in Russia and China compared: Evidence from the 7^th Wave of WVS"

Georgii Popov (CSWR HSE). "Institutional, Economic, and Geographical Determinants of Livelihood Strategies in Peripheral Communities: Evidence from the Ryazan Oblast"

17:05 – 18:50 / Value Change in Digital world.

Chair: Shcherbak Andrey (CSWR HSE)

Bruno Arpino (Università Di Padova, Italy), Natalia Soboleva (Università Di Padova, Italy), Cecilia Tomassini (University of Molise, Italy). "Connected Through Family: How Partners and Children Shape Older People’s Internet Use in Italy"

Snarski Yaroslav (CSWR HSE). "Do National Large Language Models Represent the Nation’s Values? Evidence from Russian LLM"

Arkatov Dmitrii (CSWR HSE). "Generative AI as Legal Infrastructure: An Empirical Assessment of Automated Summaries of U.S. Federal Legislation on the BillSum Dataset"