Ilona Wysmulek

Polish Academy of Sciences | PAN · Institute of Philosophy and Sociology

Although the generational experiences of young adults are believed to have an enduring impact on their attitudes throughout the life course, it remains unclear whether periods of stability versus different types of radical social change lead to substantive generational differences. In this paper, we examine attitudes toward meritocracy of four gene...

Researchers have long theorized that characteristics of education systems impact both perceived and experienced corruption in public schools. However, due to insufficient cross-national survey data with measures on corruption in education and unassembled yet publicly available institutional data, there are few empirical tests of this theory. This a...

The Polish Panel Survey POLPAN provides data infrastructure to analyze the dynamics of social inequality from a life-course perspective. Historical events shape the study’s research design. In 1987–1988, 5,817 randomly sampled men and women aged 21–65 are interviewed in what is still state socialist Poland. Soon after, their lives are upended by th...

This article proposes a new approach to analyze protest participation measured in surveys of uneven quality. Because single international survey projects cover only a fraction of the world’s nations in specific periods, researchers increasingly turn to ex-post harmonization of different survey data sets not a priori designed as comparable. However,...

Many international survey projects contain items on corruption that facilitate comparative analyses of individual-level determinants of perceived and experienced corruption, yet such data remain under-used. To encourage more and better use of the wealth of available survey projects, this article presents a comprehensive review of the largest collec...

The fundamental principle of meaningful comparative analysis of corruption featuring cross-national survey data is that countries are equally represented across time. Yet, since 1989, this principle has been consistently violated. This article examines (a) the extent to which country coverage is uneven in 45 European countries in cross-national sur...

This chapter discusses one particular and often overlooked aspect of survey quality – the consistency between different sources of documentation containing metadata that define variables and their values in questionnaires and codebooks, and between the numerical data records. It proposes a typology of processing errors in survey documentation. The...

This paper analyses the scale and sources of views on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector in Poland. Through the use of public opinion surveys, I answer questions on how the corruption level in Polish educational institutions has changed over time and how it compares to other public institutions (such as the health care sector and...

Celem mojego referatu jest przedstawienie zalet i ograniczeń związanych z posługiwaniu się międzynarodowymi sondażami przy badaniu korupcji. W swojej analizie skupiam się na badaniach przeprowadzonych w Europie w latach 1989-2013, zawierających pytania na temat zachowań korupcyjnych oraz percepcji korupcji. Zebrany materiał na temat korupcji pochod...

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Across the world, mass political protest has shaped the course of modern history. Building on decades of theory, we hypothesize that the extent and intensity of political protest is a function of micro-level democratic values and socio-demographics, country-level economic development and democratic practices, and the discrepancy (i.e. cross-level i...

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The image of state education, together with visions of its main functions, priorities and expected results are constantly being reshaped under the impact of various social, economic, political and cultural changes. Being a powerful tool of influence, education is often becoming the battlefield of different interests, the most powerful of which have...

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In this article, I discuss the basic principles of the Montessori Method. In brief, I bring up the context of the dissemination of Montessori Schools in the world and the present situation with Montessori schools n Ukraine. The main aim of the article is to present the possible applications of Montessori method and chosen principles in teaching for...