Levada Center
The Levada Centre ( also: Analytical Center Levada or Levada Center, Russian Левада - Центр, Levada - Tsentr ) is a nonprofit, independent research institute in Russia. The center was named after its founder, the first Russian professor of sociology Yuri Levada. The origins had the Levada Center in 1987 with the founding of VTsIOM under the direction of Academician Tatyana Zaslavskaia.
Structure
The Levada Center conducts research and public opinion polling in areas such as sociology, economics, psychology and market research. With about 80 employees in the Moscow office, 80 employees in the regional departments and about 3,000 interviewers, it is among one of the largest public opinion research agencies in Russia.
The key figures are the founders of the company, who began their work at VTsIOM and continue her research in the Levada Center. From 2003 to 2006, Yuri Levada was the director of the company. Since December 2006, Lev Gudkov has assumed office.
The Hauptforschunsabteilungen are:
- Department of social policy research
- Department of income and consumption studies
- Department of qualitative research
- Department for Social and Economic Research
- Department of Market Research
Organization
The Levada Center has partnerships with research centers in Russia, the other CIS countries and the Baltic countries. Your partners and customers are Russian and international companies and organizations.
The Levada Center is a member of the international communities ESOMAR and ОIRОМ. Employees are the Levada Center permanent members in the conferences and Rundtischgespraechen fund for the " Liberal Mission " (Russian фонд " Либеральная миссия "), the Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian Московский Центр Карнеги ), the Gorbachev Foundation (Russian Горбачёв - фонд ), the human rights organization Memorial (Russian общество " Мемориал "), the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the лекции Heinrich Böll Foundation, Public Lectures of Polit.ru (Russian Публичные Полит.ру ), Higher School of Social and Economics Moscow (Russian Московская высшая школа социальных и экономических наук ), the public center of Sakharov (Russian общественный центр им. А.Д. Сахарова ), and " Khodorkovsky readings " (Russian Ходорковские чтения ).
Articles, interviews and expert opinions issued by Levada, appear in Kommersant, Vedomosti, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times. Other publications in the scientific and socio - political press in Russia include " Pro et Contra ", " Otetscheswenije sapiski " (Russian " Отечественные записки "), " Social Sciences and the present " (Russian Общественные науки и современность ), New Times ( Russian " Новое Время " ), Ogonek and Novaya Gazeta. The center does not issue the journal " messenger of the social opinion " (Russian Вестник общественного мнения ), which appears quarterly.
The Levada Center is on the published Freedom House's list of independent analytical centers in Europe. Information, the Levada published, were used for the magazine The Economist in the Russia report.
In cooperation with the Levada Center, the radio stations Radio Free Europe exudes weekly program " Public Opinion " (Russian " Общественное мнение: граждане России у микрофона Радио Свобода " ) from.
1988 developed the employees of VTsIOM the first study of consumer preferences in the Soviet Union. Currently, the Levada Centre runs a wide range of sociological and market research, while using different techniques.
History
The Levada Center was founded in 2003 as a spin-off of the pollster VTsIOM. Tatjana Zaslavskaia, the current Honorary President of the Levada Center, directs VTsIOM 1987-1992, Yuri Levada 1992-2003.
In August 2003, the Russian Ministry of property relations prompted the hiring of state employees in the Directorate of VTsIOM. This allowed government structures and individuals who had nothing to do with the work of VTsIOM, control and monitor parts of the center.
In return, all VTsIOM employees quit their jobs and continued their activities under the new name " VTsIOM A". After the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation banned the use of that name, the organization Levada Analytical Center ( Levada Center ) has been renamed.
The Levada Center continues the research programs and surveys that have started under VTsIOM in 1990-2000. One of the biggest projects of the Levada Center was the study "The Soviet man " ( "Homo Soveticus ", Russian Советский Человек ). Specialists use in various surveys, the monitoring technique to reveal the biggest trends in the social development of Russian society over the last 15 years.
The Levada Center are also edited the Yearbook "Russian Public Opinion" in Russian and English, which is used in various media.
Research
The research of the Levada Center is based on regular public opinion polls in Russia. These are some of the largest projects:
- The Soviet man (Russian Советский человек ). Five major waves of public opinion polls in Russia in the years 1989, 1994, 1999, 2003 and 2008.
- Monitoring of electoral preferences in Russia, in the years 1993, 1995-1996, 1999-2000, 2003-2004, 2007-2008.
- Voices from Russia: Society, Democracy, Europe, 2006.
- Elite problems in modern Russia. From 2005 to 2006.
- Voices from Russia: What the Russian middle class of his own country and Europe thinks 2008.
- International Social Survey Programme ( ISSP), since 1991.
- New Russia Barometer, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of the legal system ( University of Strachclyde, University of Aberdeen), since 1991.