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
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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