Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3468-0732

Marcin Ślarzyński is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He studies political and social change in Europe, with the special focus on Poland, through the prism of nationalism, memory, and local community studies. Currently he is a co-PI in the project Conservative mobilizations: Intellectuals, Social Movements, and the State which is co-financed by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Research interests: Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Political Economy

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6667-4196

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin:

https://pan-pl.academia.edu/Marcin%C5%9Alarzy%C5%84ski

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RNFxgGcAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected publications:

Ślarzyński, Marcin. 2024. “The Emergence of Right-Wing Partisanship in Poland, 1993–2018: Reconciling Demand-Side Explanations of the Success of Illiberalism.” Perspectives on Politics 22(3): 692-716. https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272300275X

Ślarzyński, Marcin. 2022. “Transformation of Civil Society in Poland under the United Right Government: From Compartmentalization to Political Division.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 55(1): 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2022.55.1.131

Ślarzyński, Marcin. 2018. “Rola klubów „Gazety Polskiej” w sukcesie politycznym Prawa i Sprawiedliwości w 2015 roku. Aktorzy lokalni czy aktor ogólnokrajowej sfery publicznej III RP?” [The Role of Gazeta Polska Clubs in the Political Success of the Law and Justice Party in 2015. Local Actors or an Actor of the National Public Sphere of the Third Polish Republic?]. Przegląd Socjologiczny 67(2): 139-158. https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2018/67.2/6

Ślarzyński, Marcin. Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Wysmulek, Ilona, Powałko, Przemek, Li, Olga, Tu, Yamei, Zielinski, Marcin W., and Lavryk, Denys. 2024. Harmonization for Cross-National Secondary Analysis: Survey Data Recycling. In: I. Tomescu-Dubrow, C. Wolf, K. M. Slomczynski, J. C. Jenkins (eds.), Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206.ch9

Ślarzyński, Marcin. 2023. Cleavages, Partisan Identities, and Party Switching: Are Voters and Politicians Similarly Divided? In: K. M. Słomczyński, M. Kotnarowski, I. Tomescu-Dubrow (eds.), Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Leiden: Brill, pp. 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678675_012

Przemek Powałko is a survey data management & quality specialist involved in survey data harmonization projects (Survey Data Recycling, POLPAN).

Research interests: survey data harmonization

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-4956

Selected publications:

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Ilona Wysmulek, Przemek Powałko, Olga Li, Yamei Tu, Marcin Slarzynski, Marcin W. Zielinski, Denys Lavryk. 2023. “Harmonization for Cross-National Secondary Analysis: Survey Data Recycling”, in: Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Christof Wolf, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, J. Craig Jenkins (Eds.). Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. Wiley.

Tu, Yamei, Olga Li, Junpeng Wang, Han-Wei Shen, Przemek Powałko, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Spyros Blanas, and J. Craig Jenkins. 2023. “SDRQuerier: A Visual Querying Framework for Cross-National Survey Data Recycling”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 29: 6, 2862-2874, http://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3261944.

Kołczyńska, Marta and Przemek Powałko. 2022. “The Political Parties Crosswalk for mapping party codes in cross national surveys to Party Facts IDs”, Political Research Exchange, 4:1, http://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2022.2048957.

Zieliński, Marcin W., Przemek Powałko, and Marta Kołczyńska. 2018. “The Past, Present and Future of Statistical Weights in International Survey Projects: Implications for Survey Data Harmonization”, in: Timothy P. Johnson, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ineke A. L. Stoop, and Brita Dorer (Eds.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multicultural, Multinational and Multiregional (3MC) Contexts. Wiley.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Przemek Powałko, and Tadeusz Krauze. 2017. “Non-unique Records in International Survey Projects: The Need for Extending Data Quality Control”, Survey Research Methods, 11:1, 1-16.

Słomczyński, Kazimierz M., Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, and J. Craig Jenkins with Marta Kołczyńska, Przemek Powałko, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko, Marcin W. Zieliński, and Joshua Dubrow. 2016. Democratic Values and Protest Behavior. Harmonization of Data from International Survey Projects, Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a sociologist with additional educational background in psychology and anthropology. She joined the CASIN team in 2012, initially serving as a Technical and Managerial Specialist. She has participated in numerous CASIN initiatives, most notably the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN. Since 2022, she has been the Principal Investigator of a grant titled ‘Paltry pensions’ in the Context of the Sense of Social Justice and the Goals of Pension Policy. A Multidimensional Sociological Analysis, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. She is also a member of the Qualitative Data Archive team at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, PAS.

Research interests:

life course approach, sociology of poverty, sociology of ageing, biographical approach, social data archiving, methodology of social sciences

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-3544

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danuta-Zyczynska-Ciolek, https://independent.academia.edu/ŻyczyńskaCiołek

CV: https://ifispan.pl/members/dzyczynska-ciolekifispan-waw-pl/

Selected publications:

Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta and Robert M. Kunovich. 2023. “How the Past Shapes the Future: A Life Course Perspective on Poverty.” Pp. 75–103 in Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678675_006

Filipkowski, Piotr and Danuta Zyczynska-Ciolek. 2023. “Between Life Story and Life History. Contextualizing Biographical Narrative Interviews With Questionnaire Data.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.3.3985

Bieńkowski, Stefan and Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek. 2023. „Caught in a Matrix of Factors: A Pilot Study of Female Retirees Receiving Below-Minimum Pension Payments.” Qualitative Sociology Review 19(3): 52–72. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.19.3.03

Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta. 2021. “The Roots of Poverty, Poverty at the Root: The Relation between a Wartime Childhood and Material Hardship in Adulthood.” Polish Sociological Review 216: 493-516. https://doi.org/10.26412/psr216.04

Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta, Marta Kołczyńska. 2021. “Does Interviewers’ Age Affect Their Assessment of Respondents’ Understanding of Survey Questions? Evidence From the European Social Survey.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 33(2): 460–476. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa015

Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta. 2019. “The Experience of Systemic Transformation in Contemporary Biographical Narratives of Older Poles.” Qualitative Sociology Review 15(4): 20–45. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.4.02

Oleksiyenko, Olena and Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek. 2018. “Structural Determinants of Workforce Participation after Retirement in Poland.” Journal of Population Ageing 11(1): 83–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-017-9213-3

Ilona Wysmułek is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFIS PAN). Her research and work focus on the issues of corruption, meritocracy and social inequality, as well as methodological issues of quality in public opinion surveys and data harmonization. Since 2013, she has been actively involved in the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN project of CASIN research group. In the past, she took part in a number of CASIN projects, including the Survey Data Harmonization project.

She is currently a Principal Investigator in the collaborative project on How to research corruption?, which offers critical reflections concepts, data and methods in empirical research of corruption and anti-corruption. Since 2018, she has been teaching classes for PhD students of sociology, political science and psychology at the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (GSSR) in the field of research methodology and academic writing in the social sciences, titled: Empirical Research in the Social Sciences: Design, Implementation and Write-up (conducted together with prof. Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and prof. Joshua K. Dubrow). Since 2023, she has been a member of the advisory board of the GSSR Doctoral School.

Research interests: corruption, generational studies, age period cohort effects, meritocracy, social inequality, survey data harmonization, survey methodology, comparative analysis

Contact: room 253 (IFIS PAN), [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4952-314X

ResearchGate/Academia/Linkedin:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ilona_Wysmulek

https://pan-pl.academia.edu/IlonaWysmulek

linkedin.com/in/ilona-wysmułek-79a249179

Twitter & other social media:

Twitter @IlonaWysmulek

Other links:

https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=yNdqrCkAAAAJ&hl=pl

https://www.icrnetwork.org/who-we-are-1/members/ilona-wysmulek/

http://www.ifispan.pl/en/members/ilona-wysmulekgmail-com/

Selected publications

Articles:

Wysmułek, Ilona and Jakub Wysmułek. 2023. Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland. Acta Sociologica. Online first.

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2022. Corruption in the public schools of Europe: A cross-national multilevel analysis of education system characteristics. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Online first.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, & Ilona Wysmułek. 2022. Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(4), 412–433.

Wysmułek, Ilona, Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina & Kwak, Joonghyun. 2021. Ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data: advances in methodological and substantive inquiries. Quality and Quantity. Online first.

Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Slomczynski, K. M., Sawiński, Z., Kiersztyn, A., Janicka, K., Życzyńska-Ciołek, D., Wysmułek, I., & Kotnarowski, M. 2021. The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN. European Sociological Review, 37(5), 849–864.

Wysmułek, Ilona. 2019. Using Public Opinion Surveys to Evaluate Corruption in Europe: Trends in the Corruption Items of 21 International Survey Projects, 1989–2017. Quality & Quantity 53, nr 5: 2589–2610.

Wysmulek, Ilona. 2018. Europe of Uneven Data: Country Representation in International Surveys on Corruption, 1989–2017. Ask: Research and Methods, 27(1), 87–104.

Wysmulek, Ilona 2017. Corruption in Schools? Scale and Sources of Corruption Perception and Bribe-Giving Experience in Poland, Edukacja. Kwartalnik, nr. 4 (143): 41-55.

Baczko-Dombi, Anna and Ilona Wysmułek. 2015. Determinants of Success in Public Opinion in Poland: Factors, Directions and Dynamics of Change, Polish Sociological Review nr. 3(191): 277- 293.

Books:

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Ilona Wysmułek, eds. 2016. Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013. Warsaw, Poland: IFiS Publishers.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, with Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Ilona  Wysmułek, eds. 2016. Dynamics of Social Structure: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013.  Warsaw, Poland: IFiS Publishers.

Słomczyński, Kazimierz M., Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, J. Craig Jenkins, with Marta Kołczyńska,  Przemek Powałko, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyanko, Marcin W. Zieliński and Joshua K.  Dubrow. 2016. Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Harmonization of Data from International  Survey Projects. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Data:

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Wysmulek, Ilona; Powałko, Przemek; Jenkins, J. Craig; Ślarzyński, Marcin; Zieliński, Marcin W.; Skora, Zuzanna; Li, Olga; Lavryk, Denys, 2023, “SDR2 Database”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YOCX0M, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Wysmulek, Ilona, 2019, “Corruption Items in Cross-National General Surveys (1989-2017)”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DL9QCE, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Corruption Items in Cross-National General Surveys (1989-2017)”, Wysmułek, Ilona. 2017, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DL9QCE, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

Survey Data Recycling SDR Master Box. Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Jenkins, J. Craig; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Kołczyńska, Marta; Wysmułek, Ilona; Oleksiyenko, Olena; Powałko, Przemek; Zieliński, Marcin W., 2017, doi:10.7910/DVN/VWGF5Q, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). She conducts survey-based research on social stratification and social change, and relatedly, on survey data harmonization. Irina is the PI of the project “Structures and Futures: The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988-2023” (2022-2025, polpan.org/en/) funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, and was co-PI of the NSF-funded SDR project on ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data (asc.ohio-state.edu/dataharmonization). Since 2021, Irina is the director of the Graduate School for Social Research (gssr.edu.pl) of the PAN Institutes of Philosophy and Sociology, Psychology, and Political Studies, while also co-directing the Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training (CONSIRT, consirt.osu.edu) program of The Ohio State University and PAN.

Research interests: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Survey Data Harmonization, Social Transformations, Social Stratification, Political Sociology, Social Psychology

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7941-522X

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irina-Tomescu-Dubrow

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/irina-tomescu-dubrow-666217188

Selected publications:

Tomescu‐Dubrow, Irina, Wolf, Christof., Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Jenkins, J. Craig, Editors. 2024. Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119712206

Tomescu‐Dubrow, I., Slomczynski, K. M., Wysmulek, I., Powałko, P., Li, O., Tu, Y., … & Lavryk, D. 2024. Harmonization for Cross‐National Secondary Analysis: Survey Data Recycling. Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, 145-167. (Tomescu-Dubrow I., Wolf Ch., Slomczynski K.M., Jenkins J. C., eds) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206.ch9

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Michał Kotnarowski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, and Joshua K. Dubrow. Editors. 2023. Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change. Brill.

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Zbigniew Sawinski, Anna Kiersztyn, Krystyna Janicka, Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek, Ilona Wysmulek, Michal Kotnarowski. 2021. “The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN” European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab017

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Ilona Wysmulek. 2021. “Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach” American Behavioral Scientist doi.org/10.1177/00027642211021623

Kwak, Joonghyun, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Joshua K. Dubrow. 2020. “Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding” American Behavioral Scientist 64(9), 1366-1390. doi 10.1177/0002764220941222

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Marta Kołczyńska, and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2019. The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland. Springer.

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Henryk Domański, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Zbigniew Sawiński, Dariusz Przybysz. 2018. Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland. Budapest: CEU Press.

Dubrow, Joshua K. and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2016. “The Rise of Cross-National Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences: Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Methodological Field.” Quality and Quantity 50(4): 1449-1467. DOI 10.1007/s11135-015-0215-z (online first, 2015)

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua K. Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski.  2013. “Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy” Journal of Urban Affairs 36(3): 401-419. DOI: 10.1111/juaf.12049

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina. 2011. “Effects of Future Orientations on Income Attainment and Social Class: An Analysis of Polish Panel Data.” Polish Sociological Review 4: 515-532.

Joshua Dubrow is a PhD from The Ohio State University and a Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. His recent research on political sociology and inequality has appeared in Party Politics, Social Science Quarterly, International Review of Sociology, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, American Behavioral Scientist, Current Sociology, and World Development, among others. He teaches academic writing to MA students at the University of Warsaw and to PhDs at the Graduate School for Social Research.

Research interests: Political sociology and political inequality

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0140-8441

Website: https://joshuakjerulfdubrow.com/

Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. Currently professor and head of the Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality (CASIN), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (position held since 1992), academy professor in sociology, Ohio State University (position held since 2011), and director of the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT), Polish Academy of Sciences and Ohio State University (position held since 2008). In the past, a professor in sociology at Ohio State University (1993-2011) and recipient of significant grants from institutions in Poland (Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre) and abroad (U.S. National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway). Co-founder of the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN, a study initiated in 1987/1988 and continued every five years. Co-author (with M. Kohn) of the Social Structure and Direction (Blackwell 1990, IFiS Publishers 2007) and co-editor of several books, most recently Poland: Thirty Years of Radical Social Change (Brill 2024) and Survey Data Harmonization (Wiley 2024). Published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and other major journals in the social sciences.  Awarded for the Best Paper in the Survey Research Methods in 2017-2018 by the European Survey Research Association. Member of the Academia Europaea.

Research interests: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Survey Data Harmonization, Social Structule and Psychological Functioning, Stratification and Class Structure, Political Sociology

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-0885

Krystyna Janicka is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Zielona Gora (2005-2015). Her research focuses on social mobility and social structure – its transformations and psychological correlates, as well as the role of gender in the process of social stratification and sociological aspects of the work situation. Prof. Janicka co-authored a series of survey studies on these issues, including on the social differentiation of Lodz (1965-1998), panel studies on the changes in the structure of Polish society between 1988-2018, and the psychological functioning of individuals under conditions of social change. She authored and co-authored several book publications – including Intergenerational mobility and its correlates, Work situation and social structure, Mental Adjustment to the Post-Communist System in Poland, Lubuszanie in the first half of the 21st century – chapters in edited works and articles in domestic and foreign sociological journals. Prof. Janicka was the Secretary of the General Board of the PTS between 2002 and 2009.

Contact: [email protected]

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-2011