For Willingness to Become a Russian Scientist

Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the HSE Branch in Saint-Petersburg, has been acknowledged by the experts of ‘Russian Reporter’ magazine as one of the 100 the most authoritative people in Russia in 2011 – in the category ‘Scientists’, ‘for his willingness to become a Russian scientist’.

‘The person with the barely pronounceable name of Inglehart is considered a master of world sociology’ Russian Reporter magazine comments on its choice. ‘his works are translated into German, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Farsi, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese… a broad audience is familiar with Inglehart’s values study project – the World Values Survey. It is thanks to him that from time to time we read in the press such headlines as “Russia is the unhappiest nation in the world”. At the end of the last year an almost unimaginable thing happened: Inglehart became a Russian scientist. He was appointed Academic Supervisor of a laboratory at the Saint Petersburg branch of the Higher School of Economics. One of the reasons the HSE managed to attract this giant of sociology is that it has received a 140-million-roubles grant from the Russian government.’