Workshop "Quality of Governance and the Legacy of Socialism" in Bremen

The joint workshop organized by ICSID of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies and the University of Bremen on "Quality of Governance and the Legacy of Socialism" will be held for the first time from 25 to 26 October 2019

The working groups of Michael Rochlitz and Jutta Günther – both closely connected to Higher School of Economics Moscow – will organise the event. The workshop will take an interdisciplinary perspective on questions such as leadership, corruption, education, public opinion, and their relation to economic development in post-socialist countries. It will also give a chance to present current research about East Germany and its long way to converge with West Germany (Mod-Block-DDR project). Well known keynote speakers are invited from Kings College London (Gulnaz Sharafutdinova) and from the University of Gothenburg (Marina Nistotskaya).

ICSID works closely with the University of Bremen through a partnership agreement. The researches of the center will present at the seminar the following papers:

Ekaterina Borisova «Social Capital and Housing Renovations Program in Russia»
David Szakonyi «Candidate Filtering: The Strategic Use of Electoral Fraud in Russia»
Denis Ivanov «Public Reaction on Trade Sanctions in a Democratic Context: Evidence from Moldovan Wine Embargo»
Noah Buckley «Authoritarian-Proofing Measurement of Public Opinion: Russian Attitudes and Search Engine Data»
Amanda Zadorian «Stolichnaya praktika: Housing Renovation and Center-Periphery Relationships with the Russian Regions»
Nina Ershova «What Kind of Firms Get Government Support? The Analysis of Changes after 2014-2015 Crisis»
Thomas Remington «Elite Rent-Sharing and Income Inequality in the United States, Russia and China»
Irina Levina «Is Rule Following Good or Bad for Economic Growth?»
Ora John Reuter «Civic Duty and Voting under Autocracy»
Israel Marques «Political Connections and Non-traditional Investment: Evidence from Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education»
Alexander Libman «Patterns of Loyalism: Explaining the Excessive Compliance of Regional Officials in an Authoritarian State»
Fabian Burkhardt «Portfolio Allocation under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia»

Workshop Programme (PDF, 648 Кб)