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Book Review: Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interest, by Sarbeswar Sahoo,
Contemporary South Asia. 2014. Vol. 22. No. 2. P. 216–217.
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series "SocArXiv". 2026.
“Leaderlessness” is widely held to be a defining feature of contemporary mass mobilization, yet the claim rests on a handful of recent cases. We offer the first systematic cross-national analysis of this phenomenon from 1791 to 2019. We show that the absence of leadership is real but older and more modest than claimed: the share ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Kundu S., Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2026 No. 89 P. 198–205
This study investigates the evolution of identity politics in Bangladesh, tracing its origins from colonial legacies to contemporary challenges under the lens of neocolonialism theory. It examines how religious, ethnic, and linguistic identities have shaped political dynamics, fostering both mobilization and societal division. The research highlights historical roots, including British divide-and-rule policies and the 1947 ...
Added: May 27, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Lebedeva D., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 2 С. 149–167
Recently, anthropogenic climate change as a result of human activity during the Industrial Revolution, linked to accelerated fossil fuel combustion, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use change, and deforestation, has reached its peak and has been termed a climate crisis. From a social science perspective, the climate crisis is not only, and not so much, a geophysical ...
Added: March 30, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Ковлер А. И., Вентана Граф, 2023.
The textbook is intended for studying the course "Social Studies" at the level of the second concentration. He introduces high school students to the political and legal spheres of society, to the problems of the modern global world. Working with him will contribute to the socialization of students and the formation of their Russian civic ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Shabanova M. A., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 2 С. 11–51
In the contemporary world, food waste at the consumer (household) level poses a large-scale environmental, economic, social and ethical problem. Its alleviation meets UN Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 12.3). Based on the data of three representative surveys in Russia (2020, 2022 and 2024, N= 2,000 respondents each), the paper examines changes in the level of ...
Added: February 26, 2026
Кайдышева Н. Н., Исторический бюллетень (Российская Федерация) 2023 Т. 6 № 3 С. 73–81
The goal of this study is to present the main achievements of modern Ural historiography in the field of the formation and development of civil society in the Urals in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, and to identify prospects for further research. Such leading researchers of the history of civil ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Galygin R., Сошникова И. В., Современное право 2024 № 9 С. 44–48
This article examines the issue of determining the limits of the constitutional right of representatives of subcultures to associate. Subcultures as public associations are an institution of civil society and provide the definition of a person’s social identity. The authors examine the essence of subcultures, analyze their key features, and give their definition. Subcultures are ...
Added: February 7, 2026
Dorkhanov I., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
This study investigates the relationship between individual religiosity and attitudes towards immigrants of different religious backgrounds in Europe. Using data from the 7th wave of the European Social Survey (2014-2015), we examine the influence of individual denomination and subjective religiosity level on hostility towards Muslim immigrants and the importance of immigrants’ Christian background. Our analysis, ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Nastina E., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
We argue that a classification-based approach to measuring cultural differences across countries or subnational regions is a promising complement, and sometimes an alternative, to the widely used dimensional method in cross-cultural research. The latter summarises cultural variation using continuous dimensions, for example, Hofstede’s famous individualism-collectivism dimension. However, this approach relies on strong parametric assumptions, which are ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Korsunava V., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
Non-probability web surveys offer several advantages over face-to-face (F2F) interviews—they are cheaper, faster, more accessible, and reduce interviewer effects and desirability bias. As such, they are increasingly popular in both academic and commercial research. However, they often yield demographically biased samples, raising concerns about the accuracy of the resulting public opinion estimates. Most studies on ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Diskin I. E., Telitsyna A., Vasilyeva A. et al., Общественные науки и современность 2025 Т. 4 С. 122–135
The article provides comparative analysis of the development of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in BRICS countries (with the exception of Russia and China, with their unique regulatory approaches to NPO activities, requiring a separate, in-depth study). Key parameters are examined: dynamics of the number of NPOs, level of public participation, legal regulation, intensity of international cooperation, ...
Added: November 20, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series Soc " SocArXiv". 2025.
Research of the impact of kin alloparenting on reproduction mainly focuses on mother’s parents and parents-in-law. The impact on fertility of extended families and the alloparental help with childcare they can provide has received much less attention. Moreover, there is an important lacuna in the existing studies of this problem, as it is mostly approached ...
Added: November 11, 2025
В.В. Чистяков, / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2022. № 9.
Для понимания какого-либо качества, как правило, выбирается, некоторая подходящая для его оценки шкала (скажем, от 1 до 5), и, согласно этой шкале, качеству присваиваются одна или несколько оценок. Эти оценки затем преобразуются в одну, “усредненную”, оценку; например, выбирается среднее арифметическое. Так, несданная сессия с тремя баллами 5, 2 и 5 “характеризуется’’ средней оценкой хорошо: (5+2+5)/3 = ...
Added: November 4, 2025
Fabrykant M., / Series SocArXiv "SocArXiv". 2025.
This article explores to what extent the cross-national differences in pride reflect objective differences in countries’ performance in these spheres. The empirical study conducted to answer this question is based on the survey data from the International Social Survey Program – National Identity covering 32 countries and quantitative indicators of countries’ achievements in technology from ...
Added: October 7, 2025
Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Added: September 26, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Fain E., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2025. No. 1.
This article aims to shed light on the economic consequences of the nonviolent campaigns (NVCs) across the world. The current era is shaped with various political transformations that are often driven by political movements that engage in NVCs. Some of them are successful and result in regime change while others fail and are unable to ...
Added: September 12, 2025
Ivanov V., , in: Social Media and Digital Services - Business, Innovation, Sustainability.: Geneva: UNESCO Chair University of Strasbourg / Centre Universitaire d’Informatique de l’Université de Genève, 2025. P. 186–197.
Added: September 11, 2025
Geneva: UNESCO Chair University of Strasbourg / Centre Universitaire d’Informatique de l’Université de Genève, 2025.
This publication is the result of research presented at a conference jointly organized by the UNESCO Chair of the University of Strasbourg and the Center for Technologies (CUI) of the University of Geneva. Cette publication est le fruit de travaux de recherche présentés lors d'un colloque organisé conjointement par la Chaire UNESCO de l'Université de ...
Added: September 11, 2025