ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an empirical test for the hypothesis that issues of power underpin the process of institutional transfers and influence its outcomes. It offers an in-depth study of the National Research University—the Higher School of Economics, a leading Russian university in the social sciences with campuses in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, and Nizhny Novgorod. The chapter analyses a discussion of outcomes of the structural analysis and the content analysis can be found and demonstrates the impact of the issues of power on blueprints for reforming the Russian institutional environment of science and higher education. Some Russian research universities have a long history; their origins go back to the Soviet or even the prerevolutionary periods. Both the Moscow State University and the Higher School of Economics report to the Russian federal government and depend on it in financial terms, yet they have relatively more autonomy than midrange Russian universities.
