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Endogenous Property Rights, Conflict Intensity And Inequality In Asymmetric Rent-Seeking Contest
Yarkin, Alexander M. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
impact is non monotonous and is conditional on a) equilibrium type: conflict (rent-seeking) or peace, b) the reasons of … changes in wealth distribution, and c) the size of the ruling class, “elite”. In the conflict stage, institutional quality … conflict to peace stage (with no rent-seeking and fast growth) requires the reduction of inequality. This generates an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098839
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Cultural history: disciplinary borderlands in the time of border-scrapping
Savelieva, Irina - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The paper analyzes the objects, concepts and methods of cultural history / histoire culturelle / Kulturgeschichte / kulturnaya istoriya, a modern historical subdiscipline that exists in different national historiographical traditions. This subdiscipline’s objects of study, such as social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726948
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Nationalism in the USSR: A historical and comparative perspective
Shcherbak, Andrey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
solution of interethnic conflict. Cultural nationalism matters, it indirectly reinforces political nationalism. In both cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010727899
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Development, culture, and attitudes to America: country-level predictors of anti-Americanism
Zhirkov, Kirill - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
anti-Americanism. The former involves negative attitudes towards American culture and its global spread, whereas the latter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739723
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The choice of interpretation as a problem of social epistemology
Porus, Vladimir - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
Social epistemology is a set of attempts to assign a philosophical meaning to sociological studies of cognitive processes within their social context. These attempts are being made through competition of philosophical interpretations. The choice of interpretation is governed by the desire to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714128
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Values and Attitudes towards Innovation among Canadian, Chinese and Russian Students
Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Schmidt, Peter - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
& Gump, 2007). There were, however, culture-specific variations in some of these associations, which may be explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714132
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Values of Russians: the Dynamics and Relations towards Economic Attitudes
Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Tatarko, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
) in Russia. Thus, our study showed that values remain fairly stable within a single culture; however, they are different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714150
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Implicit theories of innovativeness: a cross-cultural analysis
Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Grigoryan, Lusine - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
This study reveals and examines cultural differences in values, implicit theories of innovativeness, and attitudes toward innovation across three ethnocultural groups: Russians, representatives of the peoples of North Caucasus (Ingush and Chechens), and Tuvins (N = 801). Individual theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720521
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Network Composition, Individual Social Capital And Culture: Comparing Traditional And Post-Modernized Ethnic Groups
Hauberer, Julia; Tatarko, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
different culture groups – Czechs and Russians representing post-modernized cultures and Dagestanis and Chechens representing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759898