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Russian Elite Poll 2016 Presenters: L-R Brisa Camacho-Lovell '16, Nora Klemmer '17, Carlos Fineman '17, Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera, Emma Raynor '18, James Bryan '16
Russian Elite Poll 2016 Presenters: L-R Brisa Camacho-Lovell '16, Nora Klemmer '17, Carlos Fineman '17, Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera, Emma Raynor '18, James Bryan '16
  • Do Russian “elites,” high-ranking individuals in Russian society, consider the United States a threat to Russia’s national security?
  • Do they believe Russia’s national interests should be limited to its existing territory or expand beyond its borders?
  • What do they think precipitated the recent crisis in the Ukraine?
  • Do they believe that Putin will stay in power for the next decade?

These and other questions will be answered on Wednesday, May 11, at 10:15 a.m. via a livestream presentation of the Hamilton Russian Elites Poll 2016 in the Kirner-Johnson Bradford Auditorium. Poll results will be available after the presentation at www.hamilton.edu/RussianPoll2016.

The poll is based on 243 face-to-face interviews conducted in February and March 2016 lasting, on average, an hour with high-ranking individuals or “elites” working in the federal bureaucracy, parliament, military and security agencies,  private businesses,  state-owned enterprises,  academic research institutes and media outlets.

The same Russian polling firm carried out this and previous elite surveys that form the basis of this series in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2012.  With the addition of the 2016 survey, the series spans 23 years and is the only longitudinal Russian elite survey data available in the world.

The survey was directed by Sharon Werning Rivera, Associate Professor of Government at Hamilton College (Principal Investigator), William Zimmerman, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Emeritus Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, at the University of Michigan, (Co-Principal Investigator), and Eduard Ponarin, Director of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and Professor of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Co-Principal Investigator). 

The following Hamilton students participated in the preparation of the 2016 questionnaire:  James Bryan, Brisa Camacho-Lovell, Audrey Darnis, Carlos Fineman, Nora Klemmer, Erin McCullough, Emma Raynor, Margaret Sanderson, Christian Stellakis, Sam Sweet, and Erick Wong.  The analysis of the findings contained in this report was conducted by James Bryan, Brisa Camacho-Lovell, Carlos Fineman, Nora Klemmer, and Emma Raynor.

 

 

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