"Obedient" mayors are necessary to inexperienced governors
Appointment of mayors instead of their election most often happens in the richest and poor cities. Governors-beginners also prefer to work with "the person" at a post of the town governor. G. Garifullina and A.Shubenkova's work
How do employees become voters
An article in the "Vedomosti" newspaper dedicated to the review of research by Timothy Fry, Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi
Jobs under the pressure of electoral technologies
HSE's expert portal observes CSID's research
ICSID Post-Doc Recruitment Proposal
The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow invites applications for a Post-Doctoral position at HSE International Center for the Studies of Institutions and Development (ICSID) to work on the project devoted to applying Limited Access Order/ Open Access Order approach to the Russian historical dynamics of XX-XXI centuries .
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Protest Psychology
Alexey Zakharov reflects on the psychology of the "Russian protest" and talks about the results of the "Factors of collective action" study carried out within the CSID IIMS project in his co;umn in "Vedomosti" Newspaper.
ICSID seminar at Columbia University
Current research and preliminary results of ICSID's activities in 2011-2012 were presentaed at an open seminar in New York on September 19-21th, 2012.
Fight criminals, but not the crime: institutional analysis of the Russian law enforcement system
In July 2012, Lauren McCarty (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has presented the results of her research on human trafficking in Russia, conducted in 2007-2009.