Scholars discuss the roots of neoliberalism and how we can understand the spheres of economic and political liberalism.
Continue reading...Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Liberalism
Daria ProkhorovaNow You See It, Now You Don’t: Perceptions of Income Inequality in Russia and the US
Maria Arievitch
How do Russians view wealth and income inequality as compared to their US counterparts? More importantly, how often are they asked?
Continue reading...Noncompetitive elections and dissent: Evidence from the USSR
Anastassia Kostrioukova
Sept. 12 marked the opening of the Jordan Center’s Fall 2014 Colloquium Series with a presentation by Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor at the NYU Department of Politics, whose current research focuses on authoritarian states, electoral competitions and statistical methodology. Rozenas presented a paper on the nature of Soviet elections, which he had written several years ago and currently wishes to revive with newly gathered data from the KGB and Communist Party archives in Lithuania.
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