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Social Capital and Attitudes towards Money

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

capital, that is, individuals‘ levels of trust, tolerance and civic identity affect their economic behavior. The sample of the …

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Are Individual Value Orientations Related to Socio-Psychological Capital? A Comparative Analysis Data from Three Ethnic Groups in Russia

Tatarko, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

This study analyzes the phenomenology of socio-psychological capital viewed as a resource for psychological relations which constitutes the basis for the formation of social capital. A cross-cultural analysis of the impact of value orientations on socio-psychological capital has been performed....

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Human Development And Generalized Trust: Multilevel Evidence

Almakaeva, Anna; Ponarin, Eduard; Welzel, Christian - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

Generalized trust is one of the most debated topics in social sciences. A flood of papers attempting to examine its … and investigates how macro conditions shape the individual determinants of generalized trust. This investigation seeks to … development as country-level moderator and trust in unknown people as a more perfect measure of generalized trust. We took six …

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University Archivists as Corporate Memory Agents in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Vishlenkova, Elena; Ilina, Kira - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

This article examines the role of archivists in shaping the capacity and the structure of a university’s memory. Drawing on sources such as laws and ministerial instructions, the authors analyze the government’s archive policy with regard to universities and how professors and archivists...

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University Deloproizvodstvo (Paper Work) as a Cultural Practice and Institution in Russia in the First Half of the 19th Century

Vishlenkova, Elena - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012

The article analyzes documentation management as a cultural practice and institution through which university professors’ corporations in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century lost their autonomy, acquiring instead a bureaucratic identity and ethics of state service. The study...

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Document preservation policy in Russian imperial universities

Vishlenkova, Elena - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This article is a reconstruction of archival policies pursued by Russian universities in the nineteenth century and their effects. By comparing ‘old’ and ‘new’ archive inventories, archivists’ records and ministerial instructions, Elena Vishlenkova detects sets of documents that were...

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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

higher levels of voluntary activity, social trust, tolerance of outgroups, and civic protest are distinctive features of …

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Values and Social Capital as Predictors of Attitudes towards Innovation

Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Osipova, Ekaterina; Cherkasova, Liubov - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

attitude to innovation. It was also found that the components of social capital (trust, tolerance, perceived social capital …

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Consumer Cooperatives and Liberal Idea In Russia

Menyashev, Rinat - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2011

A popular view in Russian studies argues that underdevelopment of Russian civil society is partly responsible for the failure of liberal idea in Russia. The fragmented society may see no alternative to massive government regulation, which is why support for a strong state is so high. If this...

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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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