Седашов Евгений Александрович

Education and Degrees

2019

PhD
State University of New York at Binghamton

2016

Master's in Political Science
State University of New York at Binghamton

Professional Interests

Quantitative Political Methodology Political Economy

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2022–2023
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Satisfaction with Degree Programme Quality’ — 2023–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Digital Skills’ — 2023

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
The effects of electoral system type on the MPs participation in the legislative process (the case of Russian State Duma)
2
Quality of rebel governance as a factor of third-party intervention in intrastate conflicts
3
Political and economic consequences of the redistricting in regional parliamentary elections in Russia since 2019

Courses (2024/2025)

Calculus (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Calculus (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Rus
Current Trends in Political Science (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
Game Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Introduction to computation psychology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Methodology and Research Methods of Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
Methodology and Research Methods of Political Science (Mago-Lego; 2, 3 module)Rus
Research seminar “Methodology and research methods of social sciences” (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

APSA Annual Conference

“Strategic Nature of Rebel Group Ideology.” [with Seden Akci-naroglu, Jeremy Berkowitz, Carlos Moreno, Hande Ogutcu, and Efe Tokdemir] 2019

“Political Determinants of Economic Backwardness: An EmpiricalInvestigation.” [with Dina Rosenberg] 2019

“Globalization and Industry-Specific Corruption: Theory and Evi-dence from Industry-Level Data.” [with Dina Rosenberg and Andrei Zhirnov] 2016

MPSA Annual Conference

“Political Consequences of the Distributional Conflict of the Market Reforms on Democratic Transition in Russia.” [with Mikhail Filippov] 2019

“Taking Distributions Seriously: Interpreting the Effects of Constitutive Variables in Nonlinear Models with Interactions.” [with Mert Moral and Andrei Zhirnov] 2019

“Corruption and Democratization: Theory and Evidence from Panel Data.” 2018

“Institutional Constraints on Coalition Formation.” [with Mert Moral and Andrei Zhirnov] 2018

“Firms' Exit Costs and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Firm-Level Data.” 2017

“The Missing Link: Explaining the Conditions under which Anti-Immigration Attitudes Translate into Policy.” [with Alena Gericke] 2017

“Elites' Political Security and Property Rights Provision.” [with Marc Davignon] 2016

“Corruption, Globalization and Allocation of Talent: Theory and Evidence from Cross-sectional Data.” 2016

“Investors’ Trust in Peace Durability: Why Some Post-civil War States Attract More Foreign Direct Investment Than Others.” [with Eliya Cornblit] 2015

ISA Annual Convention

“Don’t Take it For Granted: Strategic Nature of Rebel Group Ideology.” [with Seden Akcinaroglu, Jeremy Berkowitz, Carlos Enrique Moreno Leon, Sema Hande Ogutcu-Fu, and Efe Tokdemir]

Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology

“Moving from German National Politics to State Parliaments via a Supervised Learning Algorithm.” [with Alena Gericke and Christian Rothenbach] (poster session) 2018

“Institutional Constraints on Coalition Formation.” [with Mert Moral and Andrei Zhirnov] (poster session) 2018

“On the Substantive and Statistical Significance of the Constitutive Variables in Non-Linear Models with Interaction Terms.” [with Mert Moral and Andrei Zhirnov] (poster session) 2016

Higher School of Economics April International Academic Conference

“The Quality of Governance and Economic Competition: Theory and Evidence from Firm-Level Data.” 2018

7

Dec

2023

Why Social Science Students Should Learn Mathematics

A number of educational programmes at HSE University combine subject training with the in-depth study of computer science and complex digital tools and services. One such undergraduate programme is Computational Social Sciences (CSS), which first-year students enrolled in Psychology, Public Administration, Political Science, or Sociology can switch to. In this interview, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Daria Prisyazhniuk and the programme’s Academic Supervisor Evgeny Sedashov explain the programme’s content and how to enrol.

6

Dec

2019

Studying Political Corruption

Evgeny Sedashov joined the School of Politics and Governance (Faculty of Social Science) in September 2019, and he told The HSE Look about his work on corruption and on quantitative methods in Political Science.

Evgeny Sedashov