Subjective well-being of non-standard workers in Russia
On 27 October 2011 Tatiana Karabchuk (Deputy Director at the LCSR) and Marina Nikitina (research assistant at the LCSR) gave a talk on “Subjective well-being of non-standard workers in Russia".
State Formation and Secular-Rational Values
The regular LCSS working seminar took place on October 20, 2011. Roberto Foa, research fellow at LCSR, delivered a presentation on ''State Formation and Secular-Rational Values''.
Experimental studies of discrimination in the labor market
On 13 October 2011 Alexey Zaharov (senior research fellow at the LCSR) and Alexey Bessudnov (research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies) gave a talk on “Experimental studies of dicrimination in the labor market in Moscow".
Land, Votes and Violence: Political Effects of the Insecurity of Property Rights over Land in Dagestan
Egor Lazarev, junior research assistant at LCSR, presented his report “Land, Votes and Violence: Political Effects of the Insecurity of Property Rights over Land in Dagestan” on October 6th. Egor reported from the University of Michigan, where he is currently Carnegie visiting scholar.
Anticapitalism in Ex-Communist Countries
On September 29 was the regular seminar in the St. Petersburg. The research fellow Julia Zelikova delivered a report on “Anticapitalism in Ex-Communist Countries”. The study carried out by Julia Zelikova attempts to explain why people from ex-communist countries have more strong anti-capitalist sentiments and to explain the difference in capitalistic commitments in various ex-communist countries.
Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris - winners of the Johan Skytte Prize!
Academic Adviser of the LCSR was decorated by the most prestigious award in political science!
Islam and Nationalism in Volga-Ural Region
On September 15, 2011 at the first regular seminar of LCSR in this academic year the preliminary results of the research “Islam and Nationalism in Volga-Ural Region” (the case of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan) were presented by Eduard Ponarin, Director of LCSR, and Kirill Zhirkov, Research Fellow of LCSR.
The first Summer School of LSCR...
The first Summer School of LSCR called «Multilevel Analysis in Comparative Studies» was held from August 22 to September 2 in Pushkin, a suburb of St. Petersburg. The participants of this school were master and postgraduate students and young researchers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Israel, Germany and USA.
Human Experiments. Egor Lazarev’s Impressions about the participation in workshops at the school ICPSR
Egor Lazarev told about his academic trip to the summer school ICPSR(Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), where he took part in two short intensive workshops: “Design, Conduction and Analysis of Field Experiments in Social Sciences” (August, 1-5) and “Spatial Econometrics” (August 15-19), which have been delivered by professor Donald Green (Columbia University) and by professor Robert Franzese (University of Michigan), respectively.
Essex in summer: Anna Nemirovskaya, Anna Shirokanova, Darya Oreshina and Tatyana Karabchuk
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is the largest Summer school in Europe with more than 60 courses on contemporary quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis in social sciences. The school is famous for its teachers: the “stars” of statistics, sociology, psychology. The authors of world famous textbooks on data analysis methods teach there. Some LCSR researchers came to Essex this summer and participated in its famous summer school.