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Political Inequality

We examine the concept, theory, causes, and consequences of political inequality across nations and time.

Political Inequality

POLINQ: Political Inequality and Political Voice across Nations and Time

2017 – 2022, funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, PI: Joshua K. Dubrow

This project builds on empirical research on how economic resources and political voice connects, accounting for how political institutions mediate this connection. We developed an international research team and research infrastructure based on the resources of Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT.osu.edu), a joint endeavor of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Ohio State University (OSU). For the resources we created, publications, and a full report, visit PoliticalInequality.org.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf (ed.). 2015. Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy: Cross-national Perspectives. London: Routledge.

For a complete list of publications of the POLINQ project since 2008, visit PoliticalInequality.org

Visions of a Post-Pandemic Society via Street Protest in Poland

2022 – 2025, funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, PI: Joshua K. Dubrow

Whereas theories in political sociology explain the causes of protest emergence, they do not explain well the consequences of protest. This is because many factors, besides protest, can lead to social change. The Covid-19 pandemic challenges and pressures democratic institutions and social relations, and thus has been the subject of protests worldwide. The consequence of these challenges, pressures, and protests will be a post-pandemic society, but political sociology has yet to develop theories and methods to properly understand this near-future society’s form and direction. This project makes the needed innovative leap that the actions and demands of street protest are subjective projections of the future, i.e. visions, which are a set of empirically observable paths toward social change. Protests, conducted by street-level actors, are attempted social constructions of reality. They reveal the hopes of social groups – e.g. various intersections consisting of precarious frontline occupations, women, and Covid skeptics, among others — and thus form a perceptual basis from which post-pandemic society will emerge.

Gender and Politics

Zabrzewska, Adrianna and Joshua K. Dubrow (eds.). 2022. Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland: Women’s Protests during the Pandemic. IFiS Publishers.

Dubrow, Joshua K. and Adrianna Zabrzewska (eds.). 2020. Gender Quotas in the Post-Communist World: Voice of the Parliamentarians. IFiS Publishers.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2012. “Dynamics of Political Inequality of Voice: Romanian and Polish Women’s Parliamentary Representation since 1945.” Studia Sociologia 57(1): 3 – 25.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2012. “Do Political Parties Represent Women, the Poor and the Old? Party Image, Party System and Democracy.” International Journal of Sociology 42(1): 78 – 86.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2011. “The Importance of Party Ideology: Explaining Parliamentarian Support for Political Party Gender Quotas in Eastern Europe.” Party Politics 17(5): 561-580.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2006. “Women’s Representation in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, 1992 – 2005: The Effect of District Economic Development.” International Journal of Sociology 36 (1): 93-109.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf, Karolina Papros and Dorota Woroniecka. 2012. “Postawy Polskich Parlamentarzystow Wobec Kwot Dotyczacych Plci [Polish Parliamentarians’ Attitudes toward Gender Quotas],” pp. 145 – 164 in Tozsamosc, Zaufanie, Integracja: Polska i Europa edited by Wlodzimierz Wesolowski and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf and Dorota Woroniecka. 2010. “Polish Parliamentarian Attitudes toward Gender Equality and Gender Quotas: National and European Influences” pp 125-148 in National and European? Polish Political Elite in Comparative Perspective, edited by Wesolowski, Wlodzimierz, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, IFiS Publishers, Warsaw.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2007. “Voting for Descriptive Representation: Demographic Cues across Multiple Elections” pp. 271 – 286 in Continuity and Change in Social Life: Structural and Psychological Adjustment in Poland, edited by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt. IFiS: Warsaw.

Women, Politics, and Protest in Central and Eastern Europe: Online resource for High School students and undergraduates, with Zabrzewska, Grabowska, and Tomescu-Dubrow, in collaboration with The Ohio State University

Elite Studies

Yamokoski, Alexis and Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow. 2008. “How Do Elites Define Influence? Personality and Respect as Sources of Social Power.” Sociological Focus 41(4): 319-336.

Wesolowski, Wlodzimierz, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski (eds). 2010. National and European? Polish Political Elite in Comparative Perspective. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Pawlowski, Lukasz and Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow. 2011. “Worlds Apart? Political Theorists, Parliamentarians and the Meaning of Unequal Representation.” Polish Sociological Review 175(3): 301 – 314.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf, Karolina Papros and Dorota Woroniecka. 2012. “Postawy Polskich Parlamentarzystow Wobec Kwot Dotyczacych Plci [Polish Parliamentarians’ Attitudes toward Gender Quotas],” pp. 145 – 164 in Tozsamosc, Zaufanie, Integracja: Polska i Europa edited by Wlodzimierz Wesolowski and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf and Dorota Woroniecka. 2010. “Polish Parliamentarian Attitudes toward Gender Equality and Gender Quotas: National and European Influences” pp 125-148 in National and European? Polish Political Elite in Comparative Perspective, edited by Wesolowski, Wlodzimierz, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, IFiS Publishers, Warsaw.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2012. “Dynamics of Political Inequality of Voice: Romanian and Polish Women’s Parliamentary Representation since 1945.” Studia Sociologia 57(1): 3 – 25.

Dubrow, Joshua K. and Adrianna Zabrzewska (eds.). 2020. Gender Quotas in the Post-Communist World: Voice of the Parliamentarians. IFiS Publishers.

Lopez, Matias and Joshua K. Dubrow. 2020. “Why Political Inequality Endures: Elites, Contestation and Participation in Modern Democracies.” American Behavioral Scientist 64(9).

East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC) for Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine, 1985–2015. Version 2.0. Funded by Poland’s National Science Centre (decision number 2012/05/E/HS6/03556).

Candidates and Elections in Eastern Europe

The Electoral Control project was based on the research grant, “Who Wins and Who Loses in the Parliamentary Elections? From Formal Theory to Empirical Analysis,” funded by Poland’s National Science Centre (Sonata Bis decision number 2012/05/E/HS6/03556) from 2013 to 2016. The Principle Investigator of this project was Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow. Visit ElectoralControl.org for project details, the book, and the data.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf and Nika Palaguta (eds). 2016. Towards Electoral Control in Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers.

East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC) for Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine, 1985–2015. Version 2.0. Funded by Poland’s National Science Centre (decision number 2012/05/E/HS6/03556).

Sadowski, Ireneusz and Joshua K. Dubrow. 2018. The Ballot Box Revolutions in Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary. International Journal of Sociology 48(1).

Intersectionality: Quantitative Methodology

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2008. “How Can We Account for Intersectionality in Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data? Empirical Illustration of Central and Eastern Europe.” Ask: Research and Methods 17: 85-102.

Dubrow, Joshua K. and Corina Ilinca. 2019. “Quantitative Approaches to Intersectionality: New Methodological Directions and Implications for Policy Analysis,” pp. 195 – 214 in The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy edited by Olena Hankivsky and Julia S. Jordan-Zachery. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hughes, Melanie and Joshua K. Dubrow. 2017. “Intersectionality and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide,” pp. 77 – 96 in Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe edited by Alexander A., Bolzendahl C., Jalalzai F. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2013. “Why Should Social Scientists Account for Intersectionality in Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data?” pp. 161 – 177 in Intersectionality und Kritik, edited by Vera Kallenberg, Jennifer Meyer, and Johanna M. Müller. Springer VS.

Interdisciplinarity and the Academic Profession

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf, Marta Kołczyńska, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2018. “Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012.” Current Sociology 66(3): 466-489.

Grunberg, Sarah and Joshua K. Dubrow. 2017. “Political Sociology and the Fate of the Precariat Professor.” Sociologies in Dialogue 2(2): 136 – 156.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf and Marta Kolczynska. 2015. “A quem pertence o estudo da democracia? Sociologia, ciência política e a promessa da interdisciplinaridade na Sociologia política desde 1945 [Who Owns the Study of Democracy? Sociology, Political Science, and the Interdisciplinary Promise of Political Sociology since 1945] Sociology since 1945].” Sociologias 17(38): 92 – 120

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf. 2011. “Sociology and American Studies: A Case Study in the Limits of Interdisciplinarity.” The American Sociologist 42(4): 303-315.

Stratification

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

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