Svetlana Kirdina-Chandler (Светла́на Гео́ргиевна Ки́рдина-Чэндлер) is a Russian sociologist and economist. Scientific career began in the Novosibirsk School of Economic Sociology. Doctor of Social Sciences, PhD. Research interests: sociological theory, institutions, economic theory, the theory of institutional matrices, transients in Russian society.Svetlana Kirdina on Zaheer science foundation Author of over 160 scientific papers, the most important of which are devoted to the development and applications of the theory of institutional matrix.Svetlana Kirdina "Fundamental Difference in the Transformation Process" // Berliner Osteuropa InfoSvetlana G. Kirdina, Liberalizing Research in Science and Technology. Prospects of Liberalization for S&T Policies in Russia: Institutional Analysis. In Liberalizing Research in Science and Technology: Studies in Science Policy, Edited by Nadia Asheulova, Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Eduard Kolchinsky, Gregory Sandstrom. Saint-Petersburg: Politechnika, 2010. P. 113-137. She introduced two main and particular interdependent types of institutional matrices existing around the world, X-matrices and Y-matrices.
The main scientific results is proposed and developed the theoretical concept of institutional matrices, the essence of which is to provide a social and economic structure in the form of a combination of two matrices of basic institutions. In this case, one of the matrices has historically dominant character. The concept empirically confirmed extensive historical material and data of modern Russian and Comparative Studies, and served as the basis of weather institutional dynamics of Russian society, confirmed in practice.Svetlana G. Kirdina, The Transformation Process in Russia and East European Countries: Institutional Matrices' Theory Standpoint. In Institutional and Organizational Dynamics in the Post-Socialist Transformation, International Conference, January 24–25, 2002, Amiens (France) CRIISEA, University of Picardie and OEP, University of Marne-la-Vallee. CD 6B 3 0037578/0902.021135
Svetlana Kirdina is a stepsister of Alexander Gorban.
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External links personal site Svetlana Kirdina on GOOGLE Scholar Svetlana Kirdina on Academia.edu Svetlana Kirdina on RePEc Author Service Svetlana Kirdina as the initiator of NSU`s alumni association (in Russian)