The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR) of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) would like to invite you to the 4th LCSR International Workshop "Social and Cultural Changes in Cross-National Perspective: Values and Modernization", that will take place from March 28 till April, 4, 2014 in Moscow within the framework of the XV International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development at HSE.

Participation at the workshop is possible via entering the LCSR research network. The main purpose of the network is to attract young scholars to work on their own projects under the guidance of the LCSR experts (Ronald Inglehart, Eduard Ponarin, Christian Welzel). 

The application deadline for entering the network is January 25, 2014. The notification of acceptance will be given by February 10. Please send applications to [email protected] with the following information:

• 2 pages Curriculum Vitae;
• 5 pages Project Description: Name of author, affiliation, title, abstract of 250 words, main goal, brief literature review, main hypothesis, data description, methodology description and preliminary results;
• The application should meet the following requirements:
• The paper should be empirical and analyze processes of social change in comparative perspective (more than 5 countries) using quantitative methods;
• The paper should address one or several topics of the workshop.

Further information on the application is available here: http://bit.ly/17ayZRB