Academic Seminars Archive

Research seminar on the topic: "The Dynamics of Political Support in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Three Waves of the Values in Crisis Panel Survey"

On December 9, 2022, a scientific seminar was held on how various factors could influence the level of political trust and support among Russians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research seminar on the topic: "Estimating Authoritarian Legitimacy During Economic Downturns: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Kazakhstan"

On November 25, 2022, a scientific seminar was held on how the indicators of support for pro-democratic reforms and support for the status quo are changing in the face of a deteriorating economic situation in Kazakhstan.

Research seminar about the new book by Dana Moss

On November 11, 2022, a scientific seminar was held at which Dana Moss presented her new book "The Arab Spring Abroad". The book presents a new analytical framework to explain the organization and factors that can make transnational communities effective.

Research seminar about the new book by Elvin Ong

On October 27, 2022, a scientific seminar was held dedicated to the publication of a new book by Alvin Ong "Opposing Power. Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies". It argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances.

Research seminar on the topic: "Endogenous Popularity: How Perceptions of Support Affect the Popularity of Authoritarian Regimes "

On October 14, 2022, a research seminar was held on the study of factors affecting the popularity of authoritarian rulers. The speaker was John Reuter, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. 

Research seminar on the topic: "Interpretation and Corporate Representation in Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (eCSR) in an emerging economies"

On September 29, 2022, a scientific seminar was held on the strategy of environmental corporate social responsibility (eCSR) applied in Kazakhstan, which allows to assess the context of a developing country and the compliance of local companies with the environmental requirements of local residents and the economic requirements of market requirements.

Research Seminar on the Topic "The European Union's Perception as a Global Actor in Russia, 1991-2022"

On September 16, 2022, a scientific seminar was held on the relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation in the recent past and present, as well as how they are reflected in modern Russian political life and science.

Research seminar on the topic: "Аuthoritarian party systems"

On May 27, 2022, research seminar was held at which Grigory Golosov, as a speaker, presented his new book "Authoritarian Party Systems. Party Politics in Autocratic Regimes, 1945-2019".

Irina Busygina: "Tested by sanctions: center-regional relations in Russia in 2022 and onward"

On April 29, 2022, a scientific seminar was held to discuss administrative decentralization in Russia in the light of the pandemic, as well as other issues about the prospects for center-regional relations in modern Russia.

Ksenia Maksimovtsova: ""One Nation – One Language": The Ambiguity of the State Language and Minorities-Related Policies in Contemporary Latvia and Ukraine

At the academic seminar held on February 25, 2022, the speaker shared the results of a study on the development of national legislation in the field of language and minority-related policies and the subsequent public discussions in Latvia and Ukraine in 2018-2020.

Elections to the Russian State Duma of 2021: Results and Political Consequences

On January 28, 2022, an academic seminar was held following the results of the 2021 Duma elections. The seminar was devoted to several topics:

• Mobilization and Electoral Support of the Dominant Party in an Autocracy;
• "Orthodox Belt" on the Electoral Map of Russia: Elections to the State Duma in 2021;
• Strategic Voting of Russians During the 2021 Elections;
• Party of Popular Distrust: the Origins of the Electoral Success of the Communists in 2021;
• Elections in Difficult Times: Factors that Defeat the "Party of Power" at the Subnational Level.

At the research seminar on October 18, 2021, Vladimir Gelman presented his new book, and also our colleagues Andrey Shcherbak and Ivan Grigoriev acted as debaters.


Yuri Kabanov: "Why Do Authoritarian States Need Electronic Civic Participation?" 

On October 4, 2021, a research seminar was held at which Yuri Kabanov spoke about the factors that influenced the spread of e-participation in a global perspective.


Andrey Shcherbak: "Russia's «Conservative Turn» after 2012: Evidence from the European Social Survey"

At the research seminar held on June 4, 2021, Andrey Shcherbak presented a model for measuring popular conservatism in Russia, and also explained why the “conservative turn” policy had only been a partial success.


Igor Arefiev: "Role of New Media in Russian Political Environment: Towards a Contemporary Theoretical Understanding"

At the research seminar on May 11, 2021, Igor Arefiev presented the preliminary results of his empirical study on the Russian 2021 winter protests.


Andrey Shcherbak, Stanislav Shkel and Tatyana Tkacheva: "Anatomy of loyalty: Electoral Supermajority in the Ethnic Republics of Contemporary Russia"

On April 9, 2021, a research seminar was held at which the speakers presented the results of a study on the nature of political loyalty in Russian regions.


Dmitry Goncharov: "Cultural patterns of non-civil society in Russia"

At the academic seminar held on February 12, 2021, Dmitry Goncharov presented a research project (carried out jointly with Anna Naklyutskaya) that examines the political culture of “non-civil society” in Russia.


"Human rights as a concept and practice of human rights protection"

On December 10, 2020, the International Scientific and Practical Online Seminar dedicated to Human Rights Day was held.


Masatoma Torikai: "The cost of the strong power vertical: Strong vertical control of cadre rotations and its consequences in local electoral mobilization"

At the research seminar held on November 27, 2020, Masatomo Torikai (doctoral student at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo, Japan) spoke about the ambiguous consequences of appointing politicians who are not associated with the region as governors.


Jan Matti Dollbaum: "Political Protest in the Russian Regions since 2011"

On November 13, 2020, an academic seminar dedicated to the recent history of regional political protests was held. Dr. Jan Matti Dollbaum, (Post-Doctoral researcher, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany) spoke about the stuctural factors of variation in protest levels and forms across Russian regions. 


Tatyana Zemlyakova: "The Discipline Born from the Spirit of Reform: A History of Political Science Through Three Generations (1860-1903)"

At the research seminar held on October 30, 2020, Tatyana Zemlyakova (PhD Candidate at the Europe University Institute, Florence, Italy) presented the results of research that described the logic of the emergence and establishment of political science as a university discipline.

Daniil Tinyakov: "Can Citizens Influence Political Governance in a Hybrid Mode? The Case of Three Russian Reforms"

On October 15, 2020, a research seminar was held, at which the PhD student of the department Daniil Tinyakov presented the interim results of his dissertation work. The speaker put forward the idea that institutions in hybrid regimes can be not only a means of political survival for authoritarian elites, but also channels of influence on reforms by citizens.

Alexey Sorbale: "State autonomy and state capacity of the EU member and candidate states as factors of their (non)subordination to the law of the European Union"

On February 26, 2020, a research seminar was held, during which a graduate student, teacher of the Department Alexey B. Sorbale presented his forthcoming Ph.D. thesis.


Anna Dekalchuk and Ivan Grigoriev: "Skateboarding together: Generational Civic Activism and Non-Transition to Politics in Sosnoviy Bor"

On October 30, 2019, Anna Dekalchuk and Ivan Grigoriev spoke at the seminar of the Center for Comparative Studies of Power and Management.