Dr. Alexander Kalgin
Postdoc Fellow at the Institute of Sociology
Dr. Alexander Kalgin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Reconciliation Studies, Institute of Sociology, University of Bonn, focusing on academia, exile, and human rights defenders. He is a sociologist and economist with academic experience in Russia and Germany. After completing a PhD in institutional economics (2015), he transitioned to sociology with an MA in 2019. He worked at HSE University in Moscow for over a decade before emigrating to Germany against the backdrop of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since 2022, he has held research posts at IOS Regensburg, the SCRIPTS Cluster at Freie Universität Berlin, and Constructor University Bremen.
Research interests
- Migration
- Exile
- Academic communities,
- Sociology of science and education
Publications
- Gans-Morse, J., Kalgin, A., Klimenko, A., Vorobyev, D., & Yakovlev, A. (2022). Public service motivation and sectoral employment in Russia: New perspectives on the attraction vs. socialization debate. International Public Management Journal, 25:4, 497-516, doi:10.1080/10967494.2020.1841692
- Gans-Morse, J., Kalgin, A., Klimenko, A., Vorobyev, D., & Yakovlev, A. (2021). Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case. Comparative Political Studies, 54(6), 1086-1128. doi.org/10.1177/0010414020957669
- Gans-Morse, J., Kalgin, A., Klimenko, A., Vorobyev, D., & Yakovlev, A. (2021). Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32(2), 287-309. doi:10.1093/jopart/muab018
- Kalgin, A. (2016). Implementation of Performance Management in Regional Government in Russia: Evidence of Data Manipulation. Public Management Review, 18(1), 110-138. doi:10.1080/14719037.2014.965271
- Kalgin, A., Mashukov, S. (2025). Displaced Russian Academics Networks, Markets, and Survival Strategies, SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 56, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)".
- Kalgin, A. (2024). How Economics and Sociology Contest the Meaning of “Social Inequality”. The Russian Case, SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 35, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”.
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