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From Competition to Dominance: Political Determinations of Federal Transfers in Russian Federation

Marques, Israel; Nazrullaeva, Eugenia; Yakovlev, Andrei - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2011

The recent uprisings in the Middle East have cast doubt on the degree to which existing theories of autocracy can correctly identify which groups threaten the autocrats rule at any given time. As a result, these theories are unable to predict fundamental upheavals in established autocracies. Who...

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Secession Versus Self-Determination: Some Critical Remarks on Contemporary Theories

Belkovich, Rodion Yu. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

From the beginning of the 1980s the problem of secession has become one of the most discussed topics among the … political theory scholars in Western academia. Two main groups of theories which accept secession as a legitimate and morally … remedial theories regard secession as a remedy which can be used against the injustices a group suffers within a state The …

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Nationalism in the USSR: A historical and comparative perspective

Shcherbak, Andrey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

The late 1980s and early 1990s were characterized by the sudden rise of nationalist movements in almost all Soviet ethnic regions. It is argued that the rise of political nationalism since the late 1980s can be explained by development of cultural nationalism in the previous decades, as an...

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FRAMING EMERGING NANOTECHNOLOGIES: STEPS TOWARDS A FORWARD-LOOKING ANALYSIS OF SKILLS

Fursov, Konstantin; Miles, Ian - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

How can we think about the implications of radical technological change for employment and skills? Given the long lead-times required to train professionals, this is an important question, and standard approaches to modeling employment and occupational trends only provide limited parts of the...

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Corporate Volunteering And Its Influence On Employee Civil Engagement In Russia

Krasnopolskaya, Irina I. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

This paper is devoted to identifying and analyzing the role of corporate volunteering in functioning as the infrastructure of volunteer activity in Russia and the influence of employee civil engagement. Four main functions of third-sector infrastructure are used in this article: motivation and...

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Is individual social capital linked to the implementation of entrepreneurial intentions?

Tatarko, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

The present study reveals the role of individual social capital in the implementation of a person’s intention to start their own business and reveals how individual social capital contributes to this action. The basic premise of our study is that individual social capital facilitates...

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Social Capital and Attitudes towards Money

Tatarko, Alexander; Schmidt, Peter - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

The objective of this research was to assess the mechanism through which the individual level components of social capital, that is, individuals‘ levels of trust, tolerance and civic identity affect their economic behavior. The sample of the study included 634 respondents aged 20 to 59. A...

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Internal Empires I: Social Institutions of the Frontier

Foa, Roberto; Nemirovskaya, Anna; Mostovova, Elena - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

One of the attributes most consistently highlighted in the literature on frontier society is the tendency to spontaneous social organisation. However, despite the resilience of the ‘frontier thesis’ within sociology and political science, it has not been subject to a rigorous empirical...

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Where Does the Demand for Regulation Come From? The State’s Return to the Retail Trade in Russia

Radaev, Vadim - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

From the beginning of economic reform in 1992, the retail trade sector was one of the most liberalized market segments in the Russian economy. However, the state was suddenly brought back in during the late 2000s. A restrictive Federal trade law passed after continuous and furious debates in...

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Freelance contracting in the digital age: informality, virtuality and social ties

Shevchuk, Andrey; Strebkov, Denis - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

Based on a sample of 5,784 Russian-speaking respondents, this study provides the first quantitative evidence on freelance contracting via the Internet. We explore the extent to which these virtual business relations are formal or informal, and the role of social capital and networking. Our data...

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