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RUPASS as a Non-State Professional Identification System: Institutional Trust Formation and Administrative Resistance in a High-Regulation Migration Regime

A qualitative analysis of a practical institutional experiment, connecting the experience of RUPASS with trust, professional recognition and administrative constraints.

AuthorsIgor Leonov
Manuscript / version date2026-02-18
AvailabilityИсследование · SSRN

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The history of RUPASS is studied as a case of building a non-state mechanism for presenting professional experience in a highly regulated migration environment.

The article examines institutional trust and resistance to autonomous initiatives, relating the project’s practical history to the author’s subsequent research program.

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6265998

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Igor Leonov. (2026). RUPASS as a Non-State Professional Identification System: Institutional Trust Formation and Administrative Resistance in a High-Regulation Migration Regime. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6265998

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