Culture matters in Russia--and everywhere
Subtitle: backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine conflict
By: edited by Lawrence Harrison and Evgeny Yasin
Contributors: I︠A︡sin, E. G.; Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development (2010 : Moscow, Russia)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9781498503501; 9781498503518
Subjects: Politics and government; Congresses; Relations; Democratization; Cultural policy; Economic development; Social change
Description: "This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors--which include three Nobel Laureates--strive to analyze and understand Russian culture as tensions between Russia and the West heighten to levels not seen since the Cold War"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Papers from the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development held at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow on May 24-26, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Introduction; title: Introduction to the Moscow Symposium Collection / Lawrence Harrison; title: Transformation of Countries in Transition : Culture and the State / Evgeny Yasin; title: Part 2: Regional/Civilizational/National Cultures; title: European Culture : What It Was, Where It Is Going / Josef Joffe; title: Quo Vadis, Latin America? Four Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development / Oscar Árias Sánchez; title: Janus in Latin America / Mariano Grondona; title: How Can African Cultural Capital Prosper? / Daniel Etounga-Manguelle; title: Cultural Stability and Long Run Economic Performance / Deepak Lal; title: China's Quest for a New Cultural Identity from a Confucian Humanistic Perspective / Tu Weiming; title: Economic and Political Development in Slovenia : Betwixt and Between Europe and the Balkans / Katherine Taylor; title: Part Three: Religions and Development; title: Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy : From the Social Paradoxes to the Cultural Model / Boris Knorre; title: Religious Affiliation and Individual Economic and Political Attitudes in Ukraine / Maria Snegovaya; title: The Cultural Revolution in the Islamic World and What It Means for the Future of Muslim Societies / Pervez Hoodbhoy; title: "Creation Theology" in Economics : Several Catholic Traditions / Michael Novak; title: Fight Ethos versus Work Ethos : The Role of the Catholic Church in Fostering Pro-Development Values in Poland / Damian Pyrkosz; title: Holy Ghost Fire! Pentecostal Religious Culture in Africa / Rachel Okunubi; title: Part Four: Culture's Influence on Economic Variables; title: The Role of Culture in Understanding the Process of Economic and Social Change / Douglass North; title: Culture, Cooperation, and Repeated Games / Eric Maskin; title: The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions : Evidence from European Regions / Mariaflavia Harari and Guido Tabellini; title: Culture and Economic Growth : Getting the Theory Right / William Easterly; title: An Appraisal of the Cultural Change Institute Factors Typology / Matteo Marini; title: Part Five: Culture, Psychology and Economics; title: Cultural Values Influence and Constrain Economic and Social Change / Shalom Schwartz; title: Cognition East and West : Fundamental Differences in Reasoning and Perception / Richard Nisbett; title: American Culture and the 2008 Financial Crisis / Geert Hofstede; title: Culture of Horizontality and Personal Autonomy : A Humanistic Approach to Culture Change / Valery Chirkov and Nadezhda Lebedeva; title: Part Six: Measuring Culture and Cultural Change; title: Measuring Culture and Cultural Change : An Introduction / Ronald Inglehart; title: Measuring Cultural Capital and Change : Axiological Diagnosis / Miguel Basáñez; title: Trust and Cultural Change in Argentina : A Latin American Comparison / Marita Carballo; title: Part Seven: The Russian Case; title: The Economic Wonder : Market and Culture / Oleg Chirkunov; title: "All Are Guilty, Which Means That Nobody Is!" : Continuing the Talk on Progress in Russian Culture / Andrei Konchalovsky; title: Basic Human Values of the Russians : Different from and Similar to Other Europeans / Vladimir Magun and Maksim Rudnev; title: Socio-Cultural Modernization in Russia : Norms and Values System Shift / Natalya Tikhonova; title: Part Eight: Promoting Progressive Cultural Change; title: The Role of the Family in the Acquisition of Values / Jerome Kagan; title: Can Teachers Empower Youth for Democratic Citizenship? Evaluating Civic Education Pedagogies in Mexican Secondary Schools / Fernando Reimers, Maria Elena Ortega, Mariali Cardenas, Armando Estrada, and Emanuel Garza; title: The Me to Everyone Cable / Reese Schonfeld with Erica Shusas; title: New Occasions Teach New Duties : Social Change and Leadership / Richard Lamm; title: Economic Policy and Cultural Change / James Fox; title: Culture and Legal Dogmatism in an Era of Immaterial Wealth : The Case of Latin America / Octavio Sánchez; title: A Culture of Profitability / Robert Kleinbaum.