Andrey S. Akhremenko
- Professor: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Politics and Governance
- Leading Research Fellow: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology / Politics & Psychology Research Laboratory
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Applied Politics
- Andrey S. Akhremenko has been at HSE University since 2004.
- Language Proficiency
- English
- Contacts
- Phone:
+7 (495) 772-95-90
22719 - Address: 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, room М20-441
- SPIN-RSCI: 9311-1250
- ORCID: 0000-0001-8002-7307
- ResearcherID: L-3000-2015
- Scopus AuthorID: 57212303287
- Google Scholar
- Supervisor
- A. Y. Melville
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Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
July 7 - 12, 2014. Moscow. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Mixed Methods Research Strategy: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (prof. David Morgan, Portland State University).
February 22 - March 2, 2022: Advanced training program "Organization of the teacher's work in the HSE Smart LMS educational process support system: basic course" (certificate No. 205560)
May 24-31, 2024. “Basic concepts of artificial intelligence and application in various fields”, HSE Univrsity
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best Teacher — 2022–2024, 2017–2019
- Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022
- Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Retention and Loyalty’ — 2023–2024
- Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Engagement with External Customers’ — 2023
Courses (2025/2026)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Computational Modeling in Social Sciences (Bachelor field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2024/2025)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2023/2024)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Computational Modeling in Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2021
XXII Апрельская международная научная конференция НИУ ВШЭ по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: АГЕНТНО-ОРИЕНТИРОВАННАЯ МОДЕЛЬ ДИНАМИКИ РАЗВИТИЯ ПРОТЕСТНОЙ КАМПАНИИ: ДИЗАЙН, РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ЧИСЛЕННЫХ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТОВ
XIV международная конференция «Управление развитием крупномасштабных систем» (MLSD’2021) (Москва). Presentation: МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ УЛИЧНОГО ПРОТЕСТА: ДИНАМИКА ЧИСЛЕННОСТИ ПРОТЕСТУЮЩИХ И ОТВЕТ ВЛАСТИ
The fourth annual Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS'2021) conference (New York). Presentation: NETWORK TOPOLOGY, HOMOPHILY AND PROTEST CASCADES: FINDINGS FROM AGENT-BASED MODELING
2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE «ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY» (EMCTECH) (Вена). Presentation: . IMPACT OF DIGITAL AND TRADITIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS ON PROTEST CAMPAIGNS: AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS
- 2020
2020 International Conference on Engineering Management of Communication and Technology (EMCTECH) (Вена). Presentation: THE EFFECTS OF OPINION LEADER RADICALIZATION UNDER DIFFERENT USER TOLERANCE LEVELS: SIMULATING POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS ON TWITTER
Тринадцатая международная конференция «Управление развитием крупномасштабных систем» (MLSD’2020) (Москва). Presentation: ПРОВЕРКА ГИПОТЕЗ О ФАКТОРАХ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ УЛИЧНОГО ПРОТЕСТА: КОМБИНИРОВАННАЯ СТАТИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СТРАТЕГИЯ
XXI Апрельская международная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: О динамике «крупномасштабной структуры» мирового порядка 1995 – 2015: результаты многомерного анализа
XXI Апрельская международная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: О динамике «крупномасштабной структуры» мирового порядка 1995 – 2015: результаты многомерного анализа
- 2018
XIX Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Производительность экономики как фактор консолидации демократии
Одиннадцатая международная конференция "Управление развитием крупномасштабных систем" MLSD'18 (Москва). Presentation: Построение и исследование индекса алертности социальных движений и партий
International Workshop of the School of Political Science «State capacity, Power and Influence in World Politics: Concepts and Measurements». Presentation: Operationalizing the New Index of Power and Influence
- 2017
XVIII Апрельская Международная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Качество политических институтов, «тропа зависимости» и экономическая эффективность: теоретическая модель и результаты кросс-странового эмпирического анализа
- 2016
XVII Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Устойчивость к неоптимальным решениям в модели экономического роста с максимально допустимыми границами неравенства
- 2015
XVI Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Может ли политическая пропаганда влиять на экономический рост: к формальной динамической модели
- 2014
23rd World Congress of Political Science. Presentation: Corruption as a Core of Redistribution: towards a Formal Model
Editorial board membership
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1State-Dissident Interactions: the Dynamics of Protest Campaigns and the Factors of their Success, 2024
- 2The Long-term Effects of Repression on Street Protest Activity in Foreign Countries, 2024
- 3I. Philippov The Effect of Negative Sanctions on Political Communication on Social Media, 2023
- 4The effect of the patterns in the dissolution of communism on the transition to new systems in Eastern Europe, 2023
- 5Y. Shulika Impact of the resource rent economy on the survival of authoritarian regime, 2022
- 6G. Ignatyev Connection between positional and affective forms of political polarization in the USA: 2004-2024
- 7Digital and political trust as factors of perception of e-government practices by Russian citizens
- 8The relationship between structural, ideological and affective polarization in Russian-language political Telegram channels
- 9A. Sinitsina The cohesion effect in the Russian social media: motivations analysis (2022 – 2024)
- 10The Peculiarities of Political Communication of Neighborhood Online-communities (the case of Volgograd)
- 11V. Koncha The Transformation of the Collective Identities of the Participants of the Protest and Counter-protest Movements: the cases of Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter
Round Table “New directions in the study of digital transformation in governance”
The International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration organized round table “New directions in the study of digital transformation in governance” in 26 June 2024. The Academic Supervisor of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration, Professor Eran Vigoda-Gadot and the Head of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration, Associate Professor, PhD Evgeny Styrin acted as moderators. The round table brought together 20 experts from Russia, Israel, Brazil and the USA.
Constructing collective identity in the interaction of protests and counter-protests in online environments
Valeria Koncha and Andrei Akhremenko spoke about their research
Analyzing attitudes towards e-government services: a study on social media data
V.Y. Egorov and I.B. Filippov presented a study of attitudes to digital government, carried out under the guidance of the leading researcher of the laboratory Andrei Sergeevich Akhremenko.
Congratulations to the best teachers of 2023!
This year, four lab members received top honors from students
Seminar “Why do different digital public services differ so much in the response of social media users? Empirical data on the way towards a formal model”
On April 21, 2023, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration held a seminar “Why do different digital public services differ so much in the response of social media users? Empirical data on the way towards a formal model”. The speakers were Professor Andrei Akhremenko, intern researcher of the laboratory Ilya Philippov and graduate student Vadim Egorov.
‘It’s a Very Small Area of Political Science, and Working to Redress That Is Very Satisfying’
On March 15, Judas Everett defended his doctoral dissertation ‘The Effect of the Patterns in the Dissolution of Communism on the Transition to New Systems in Eastern Europe’, which investigates the relationship between the demise of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the quality of democracy in the post-communist regime. The defence took place remotely. His academic supervisor was Professor Andrey Akhremenko of the HSE University School of Politics and Governance at the Faculty of Social Sciences. In his interview, Judas talks about the topic of his research and explains why political science is more important than ever.
HSE University Researchers Receive Fifteen Grants from the Russian Science Foundation
The Russian Science Foundation has announced the winners of four 2020 competitions. Some of the winners are from HSE University. They have received grants of 12 to 24 million roubles, for a term of two to four years.
State Capacity
How It Is Measured and Compared
English Graduate Chooses to Pursue Doctoral Studies in Political Science at HSE
Ever since he was a teenager, Judas Everett has been interested in politics. A new postgraduate student in HSE’s Doctoral School of Political Science, Judas says he owes a lot of his continued interest to the teachers he’s had over the years, the right encouragement and the right reading suggestions.