Irina Grunicheva, research fellow at the Center of Socioeconomic Development of Schools, Institute of Educational Studies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: igrunicheva@hse.ru Address: 20 Myasnitskaya St., 101000, Moscow, Russian...

The authors present results of a study which was conducted by the Institute for development of education (Higher school of economics) in 2009-2011 years. The study was concerned with the problem of inequality in education and its aim was to find out the causes of formation of a segment of...

Since its foundation in 1954 regional science was first used for the reconstruction of regional economies after world war 2 and for regional planning. But, in the 1990?s, with political liberalism, it entered into a deep crisis with the closing of many departments in the world. With the new...

This chapter examines creative genius in the three most prominent domains of artistic achievement: literature, music, and the visual arts. Treatment begins with the definition of artistic genius in terms of achieved eminence, with special attention to the measurement issues (i.e. magnitude of...

Drawing on data from the twenty year long German Socioeconomic Panel Study, we show that partisanship is bounded. Almost every West German, East German, and immigrant never supports one or both of the major parties and most people vary support for their party by claiming no partisan preference....

That partisanship is bounded. Almost every West German, East German and immigrant never supports one or both of the major parties and most people vary support for their party by claiming no partisan preference. Hardly anyone ever selects each of the parties at different points in time. Immediate...