The focus of this report is on Russian emigrants who left Russia after February 24, 2022. This report does not cover those who left earlier, as well as those who are still in Russia, but plan to leave. In August-early September 2022, before the announcement of the "partial" mobilization, the research project OutRush conducted a second wave of the online panel survey of emigrants from Russia who are currently in more than 60 countries all over the globe. We surveyed the respondents in March 2022 and invited new participants by posting and disseminating a link to the survey. The link was distributed through online channels, social media groups, and internet influencers. The participation of those previously surveyed allowed us to draw conclusions about the dynamics of the respondents’ movements, and changes in attitudes, plans, and expectations. Our panel data is the only opportunity today to monitor changes within the Russian emigrants’ communities who left the country after February 24. The survey data are complemented by a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in the summer of 2022 in Tbilisi.
C начала 2000-х годов показатели субъективного благополучия жителей России росли благодаря увеличивавшимся доходам и укреплявшемуся оптимизму относительно будущего. Однако ухудшение экономического положения, последовавшее за кризисом 2008 г., не привело к ожидаемому падению субъективного благополучия. Одно из вероятных объяснений — рост национальной гордости. В данной работе проверяется, действительно ли национальная гордость положительно и каузально влияет на счастье и удовлетворенность жизнью жителей России. Также исследуются возможные компенсаторные свойства национальной гордости, благодаря которым ее эффект может быть более сильным для индивидов с низкими доходами и плохим здоровьем, а также в период экономического застоя. В исследовании используются интегрированные базы данных Всемирного исследования ценностей (World Values Survey) и Европейского исследования ценностей (European Values Study), содержащие опросные данные по России с 1990 по 2017 гг. Авторы применяют метод линейной регрессии с использованием инструментальных переменных. Получены следующие результаты: эффект национальной гордости на субъективное благополучие положительный и статистически значимый (β = 0,26, p-value < 0,001), в том числе при использовании инструментальных переменных (β = 0,92, p-value < 0,001). Данный эффект наиболее силен в период после 2008 г., а также среди лиц с низкими доходами.
Any country in order to stay afloat sooner or later is forced to undertake large-scale internal reforms in various policy areas. However, structural reforms often bear adverse consequences for the population. As the studies of the US and European states show, one of the most crucial negative consequences is the decrease in mass support for the government that has initiated the reform. The latter manifests itself in a drop of approval ratings, trust in government, propensity to vote for the incumbent at the forthcoming elections. Such a decrease may lead to decreased legitimacy of the political power, thereby destabilizing the current political system. Is it possible to strike the balance between the necessity of reform and upholding trust on the society’s behalf? Can a government carry out painful reforms without provoking hatred? What conditions facilitate such balance? Although the factors of mass support play the central role in nowadays’ political science, the answers to the questions mentioned above remain unanswered. This article examines different options available to governments in order to preserve their mass support and legitimacy when conducting unpopular reforms, with a special emphasis on media framing. Using various theoretical sources and the recent literature on political support in Russia, it identifies various factors that may facilitate the use of the latter option in the Russian context.
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