LCSR Summer School Day 4

Courses become more complicated and reports are interesting as usual. Read atricle on the Lab website to know morel

Today students learned how to fit models in the right way using CFA, and also how to assess and compare different models during the course of professor Schmidt. Report session of that day was suddenly shortened as Alexander Kustov was not able to join us in time due to problems with visa issuer.

Therefore the presentation of final project by Marharita Zavadskaya became the first report at the session. She investigated under which conditions elections might have subversive effects in competitive authoritarian regimes. Particularly, she was interested what role predominant values of population played during electoral crises. Margarita's results showed that protest actions in that kind of polities were primarily inspired by "consumerism" based on secular-rational values but not normative demand for democratic rules. Other interesting findings of her research are that repressions diminished the violence level of post-electoral protests. Nevertheless, repressions did not determine electoral successes of authoritarian government. 

After Rita's report Anna Shirokanova was talking about new findings in her project "Individualization and Social Solidarity in post-Communist Europe".  In the end of that evening Yuriy Saveliev from National University of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, presented his new proposal. The title of Yuriy's project is "Elaborating Capability Model of Modernization: Social Inclusion and Self-expression Values in European Societies".

by Boris Sokolov