In the course of the last few years, the Russian society has been going through a stage of political, cultural and economic transformations that bring changes into the lifestyle, attitudes, and worldview of Russian citizens. The process of development has embraced not only science and...

This study investigated relations of basic personal values to attitudes towards innovation among students in Russia, Canada, and Сhina. Participants completed a questionnaire that included the SVS measure of values (Schwartz, 1992) and a new measure of attitudes towards innovation (Lebedeva,...

Stateness is the capacity of the state to exercise its fundamental functions. The collapse of the socialist system prompted the former USSR countries to ‘re-invent' their stateness. The paper focuses on factors that impede or smooth stateness transformations in post-socialist countries. First,...

It is commonplace that a sovereign state is a prerequisite to democracy. But not all states are alike, each having different resources, capacities, priorities, properties, and so forth. What kinds of states and what particular features are conducive to democracy or autocracy? How do different...

This article offers a discussion of Russia’s post-Soviet search for international legitimacy, informed by the notions of social antagonism and hegemony elaborated by E. Laclau and C. Mouffe. It is argued that discourse on humanitarian cooperation in the CIS is at the heart of Russia’s...

This paper considers two issues. First, it evaluates the changes in Russia's investment climate in 2012-2014 after the announcement of an ambitious governmental program to improve the conditions for doing business. Second, because the relevant reforms were personally initiated by Vladimir Putin,...

This paper provides comprehensive empirical evidence on political connections of Russian corporations based on a sample of companies for the period 2011 – 2015, divided into subsamples before and after the events in Ukraine. Specifically, the study (1) evaluates how common political...

Although a productivity slowdown of the global economy was observed before 2008, it was the 2008 crisis that stimulated studies on its origins. Recent literature suggests inefficient investments in machinery, human capital and organizational processes. This includes skill mismatches and a lack...