Research Seminar on Diversity and Development
David Schindler became the 5th speaker this year to present his research at the ICSID-CSDSI regular seminar on Diversity and Development. The seminar was held jointly with the seminar “Political Economy” and Economic Development and Growth Research Group on April 17, 2018.

XIX April HSE conference presentations
XIX April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development organized by Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow on April 10-13, 2018.

MPSA Conference 2018
ICSID team members took part in the 76th annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference that was held in Chicago on April 5-8, 2018.

Western Political Science Association Conference 2018
ICSID team members took part in the WSPA Conference, which was held in San Francisco (USA) on March 29-31, 2018.
Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions held another session of their joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development.

Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship
ICSID Research Fellow Denis Ivanov took part in the Second conference “Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship” which was held in the Westphalian Wilhelm University Muenster (Germany) on March 15-17, 2018.
Joint seminar on Diversity and Development
Another session of the joint seminar on Diversity and Development was held at HSE on March 13. Professor Andrei Markevich from the New Economic School presented his research on "Democratic Support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An Empirical Investigation of 1917 Constituent Assembly Elections".

Seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Andrei Yakovlev was invited to give a talk at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) on March 9, 2018. The paper that Professor Yakovlev presented was called “In Response to External Shocks: How Advanced Russian Regions React to Changes in Federal Policies – the Experience of Tatarstan”. The seminar was chaired by Thomas Remington, the Davis Center Associate and Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

“The Life & Legacy of Douglass North” Conference
ICSID Director Andrei Yakovlev presented his paper "Mobilizing Law in Developing Countries: Some Implications from Russian ‘Limited Access Order’" at “The Life & Legacy of Douglass North” Conference that took place at George Mason University in Arlington, the USA, on March 2-3.
Pocketbook motivation in voting in Russia
Kseniya Abanokova, Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Comprehensive Social Policy Studies (HSE), presented her current research on "Pocketbook motivation in voting in Russia" at another session of the ICSID and CSDSI Research Seminar on Diversity and Development on February 20, 2018.