Marta Kołczyńska
Biographic Data
| ID | 219465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Kołczyńska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Kołczyńska |
| SIGNATURE | KOŁCZYŃSKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Political Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4981-0437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Effects of political polarization on non-electoral participation
Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis
Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects political trust to democratic legitimacy, highlights trust’s behavioural and attitudinal consequences, and underscores its contextual character as a form of political support, we hypothesize that political trust exerts a positive effect on subsequent changes in democratic quality, but only…
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Growing concerns with political polarization have led to a proliferation of research on its consequences. This paper presents results of a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of 25 articles that study the effects of polarization on participation. We categorize studies depending on polarization type (affective or ideological), level (individual or system), and participation type (electoral or non-electoral), to analyze the theoretical a…
Donor Dependency, Embeddedness and Organizational Structure of Civil Society: An Analysis of a Global Sample of Actors Active in the Field of Corporate Accountability
Faced with the growing influence of multinational corporations on global politics and economy, civil society organizations play an increasing role in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation. However, the effectiveness of global civil society in this role and the consequences of power dynamics between donors and funded organizations for corporate accountability (CA) strategies are still disputed. …
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine
The European Union serves as an important aspirational and geopolitical reference in the societies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and, thus, their pro- and anti-EU sentiments traditionally serve as a synthetic indicator of political values, attitudes, and preferences. At the same time, since at least the 1970s, the social sciences have treated generational replacement as an important factor in political change. Our goal is, therefor…
Kish grid vs birthday procedures: Survey refusal rates by the type of within-household selection procedure in the European Social Survey
Two approaches to within-household selection of target respondents dominate cross-national surveys of the general population: the Kish grid and birthday procedures. The Kish grid is a rigorous probabilistic approach expected to produce higher-quality samples. However, its requirement to construct a complete household register is intrusive and may increase refusals. Conversely, birthday procedures, which do not require a household roster, may resu…
Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in Covid-19 preprints
Replications are important for assessing the reliability of published findings. However, they are costly, and it is infeasible to replicate everything. Accurate, fast, lower-cost alternatives such as eliciting predictions could accelerate assessment for rapid policy implementation in a crisis and help guide a more efficient allocation of scarce replication resources. We elicited judgements from participants on 100 claims from preprints about an e…
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: Performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization
The Political Parties Crosswalk for mapping party codes in cross-national surveys to Party Facts IDs
The Political Parties Crosswalk (PPC) maps party codes used in questions about party preferences in European cross-national public opinion surveys to Party Facts IDs, which are commonly used identifiers of parties in political science datasets. The PPC, a data linkage tool, supports research that combines data on party support from surveys with characteristics of parties, and in particular, facilitates research that combines data from different s…
The winner takes all the trust: Populism, democracy, and winner-loser gaps in political trust in Central and Southern Europe
Studies typically find that supporters of populist parties exhibit low political trust. Drawing on research on winner-loser gaps in political support and the consequences of political polarization on attitudes, I re-examine the association between populism and political trust taking into account the supported party’s status in or outside of government, distinguishing between government leaders and junior coalition partners. I analyze data from th…
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts
Objective We investigate the influence of social contexts on democratic attitudes. Methods We use a novel survey data set with data from a nationally representative sample of Polish residents (egos) and their friends and acquaintances (alters). Results Controlling for several factors defined on the ego‐ and alter‐levels, we find a positive relationship between alters’ and ego's endorsement of democracy over nondemocratic alternatives. This effect…
Combining multiple survey sources: A reproducible workflow and toolbox for survey data harmonization
Ex-post harmonization of survey data creates new opportunities for research by extending the geographical and/or time coverage of analyses. Researchers increasingly combine data from different survey projects to analyze them as a single dataset, and while teams engaged in data harmonization continue to expand the information they provide to end users, there are still no commonly agreed standards for the documentation of data processing. Existing …
Marketplace of indicators: Inconsistencies between country trends of measures of the rule of law
Social scientists can choose from among multiple quality of governance indicators which use different conceptualizations of governance and its components, rely on different data sources, and employ different aggregation and scaling techniques. Despite all differences, these indicators are commonly found to be strongly correlated, which makes the choice of indicator for a given analysis seem inconsequential. We focus on rule of law indicators to d…
The Economy and Governance as Determinants of Political Trust in Europe: An Analysis of the European Values Study and World Values Survey, 1990-2019
Trust in state institutions is essential for the stability and legitimacy of political regimes. Understood in evaluative terms, political trust has often been linked to the performance of the state and its institutions. The macro-level sources of trust, however, are not well understood owing to the scarcity of empirical tests beyond cross-sectional analyses. This paper examines economic performance and the quality of governance as determinants of…
Does Interviewers’ Age Affect Their Assessment of Respondents’ Understanding of Survey Questions? Evidence From the European Social Survey
General population surveys target the entire adult populations of participating countries, where, in many advanced societies, older respondents constitute an ever increasing share. Reflecting these processes, in the European Social Survey (ESS), the proportion of older respondents has been increasing.2 Prior research has found that older respondents are more often assessed by interviewers as having problems with understanding survey questions. Th…
Changes or Cross‐National Differences? Effects of Economic Inequality on Protest Participation
Objective The association between economic inequality and protest participation has attracted much scholarly attention, and yet empirical tests of this association remain unsatisfactory. Methods Applying a multilevel model to the eight‐wave repeated cross‐sectional data set from the European Social Survey, analyses presented in this article distinguish between cross‐national and longitudinal differences in economic inequality to investigate their…
Democratic values, education, and political trust
This article examines the links between education, democratic values, and political trust. Research on education systems as carriers of modern orientations and democratic values worldwide predicts that educated individuals will exhibit more democratic values than less educated ones, regardless of the country’s level of democracy. In the political culture approach, political trust can be understood as a reflection of the congruence or incongruence…
How Far From Meritocracy? A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis of European Countries
This figure describes the distance from meritocracy in 36 European countries between 2002 and 2017. Following Krauze and Slomczynski, the author defines meritocratic allocation of individuals by education to occupational status groups as a situation when more educated persons do not have jobs with lower status than less educated persons. Using data from the European Social Survey rounds 1 to 8, for each country-round, the author identifies the th…
Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012
Professional events that feature face-to-face interaction of social scientists from across the world are, next to publications and research, important forms of scientific knowledge production and dissemination. Thus, they are vital to the World Science System (WSS). Like other WSS elements, scholarly involvement in international social science events is characterized by unequal cross-national representation. This article focuses in-depth on the I…
Working with Data in the Cross-National Survey Harmonization Project: Outline of Programming Decisions
In the Harmonization Project we use data from 22 cross-national survey projects that cover a total of 142 countries or territories over a time span of almost 50 years (1966–2013). The large volume of the data, their multilevel structure as well as the large number of source files encouraged us to develop a set of custom tools for extracting, transforming, and loading data into a common database that allows for efficient automation of repeatable a…
A quem pertence o estudo da democracia? Sociologia, ciência política e a promessa da interdisciplinaridade na Sociologia política desde 1945
Interdisciplinaridade é a integração entre duas ou mais disciplinas que produz conhecimento emergente, original, interessante e útil. A interdisciplinaridade é mais promissora quando a relação entre as disciplinas integradas é forte e simétrica. A sociologia política já foi considerada uma ponte natural entre as disciplinas de sociologia e ciência política. Contudo, em diversas medidas bibliométricas da base de citações da Web of Science entre 19…
On the Asphalt Path to Divinity
This article presents one of the many faces of contemporary Islam in the Balkans, that of the Bektashi community in Albania, and specifically the Sari Saltik teqe (sanctuary) on Kruja mountain. In so doing, it sheds light on the role of religion in 'post-atheist' Albania, while taking into account major changes to the religious landscape in the post-communist, and arguably post-transformation context. The essay ethnographically examines the chall…
Democratic values, education, and political trust
This article examines the links between education, democratic values, and political trust. Research on education systems as carriers of modern orientations and democratic values worldwide predicts that educated individuals will exhibit more democratic values than less educated ones, regardless of the country’s level of democracy. In the political culture approach, political trust can be understood as a reflection of the congruence or incongruence…
A quem pertence o estudo da democracia? Sociologia, ciência política e a promessa da interdisciplinaridade na Sociologia política desde 1945
Interdisciplinaridade é a integração entre duas ou mais disciplinas que produz conhecimento emergente, original, interessante e útil. A interdisciplinaridade é mais promissora quando a relação entre as disciplinas integradas é forte e simétrica. A sociologia política já foi considerada uma ponte natural entre as disciplinas de sociologia e ciência política. Contudo, em diversas medidas bibliométricas da base de citações da Web of Science entre 19…
The winner takes all the trust: Populism, democracy, and winner-loser gaps in political trust in Central and Southern Europe
Studies typically find that supporters of populist parties exhibit low political trust. Drawing on research on winner-loser gaps in political support and the consequences of political polarization on attitudes, I re-examine the association between populism and political trust taking into account the supported party’s status in or outside of government, distinguishing between government leaders and junior coalition partners. I analyze data from th…
Combining multiple survey sources: A reproducible workflow and toolbox for survey data harmonization
Ex-post harmonization of survey data creates new opportunities for research by extending the geographical and/or time coverage of analyses. Researchers increasingly combine data from different survey projects to analyze them as a single dataset, and while teams engaged in data harmonization continue to expand the information they provide to end users, there are still no commonly agreed standards for the documentation of data processing. Existing …
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: Performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization
Marketplace of indicators: Inconsistencies between country trends of measures of the rule of law
Social scientists can choose from among multiple quality of governance indicators which use different conceptualizations of governance and its components, rely on different data sources, and employ different aggregation and scaling techniques. Despite all differences, these indicators are commonly found to be strongly correlated, which makes the choice of indicator for a given analysis seem inconsequential. We focus on rule of law indicators to d…
The Economy and Governance as Determinants of Political Trust in Europe: An Analysis of the European Values Study and World Values Survey, 1990-2019
Trust in state institutions is essential for the stability and legitimacy of political regimes. Understood in evaluative terms, political trust has often been linked to the performance of the state and its institutions. The macro-level sources of trust, however, are not well understood owing to the scarcity of empirical tests beyond cross-sectional analyses. This paper examines economic performance and the quality of governance as determinants of…
Changes or Cross‐National Differences? Effects of Economic Inequality on Protest Participation
Objective The association between economic inequality and protest participation has attracted much scholarly attention, and yet empirical tests of this association remain unsatisfactory. Methods Applying a multilevel model to the eight‐wave repeated cross‐sectional data set from the European Social Survey, analyses presented in this article distinguish between cross‐national and longitudinal differences in economic inequality to investigate their…
Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012
Professional events that feature face-to-face interaction of social scientists from across the world are, next to publications and research, important forms of scientific knowledge production and dissemination. Thus, they are vital to the World Science System (WSS). Like other WSS elements, scholarly involvement in international social science events is characterized by unequal cross-national representation. This article focuses in-depth on the I…
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Growing concerns with political polarization have led to a proliferation of research on its consequences. This paper presents results of a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of 25 articles that study the effects of polarization on participation. We categorize studies depending on polarization type (affective or ideological), level (individual or system), and participation type (electoral or non-electoral), to analyze the theoretical a…
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine
The European Union serves as an important aspirational and geopolitical reference in the societies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and, thus, their pro- and anti-EU sentiments traditionally serve as a synthetic indicator of political values, attitudes, and preferences. At the same time, since at least the 1970s, the social sciences have treated generational replacement as an important factor in political change. Our goal is, therefor…
How Far From Meritocracy? A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis of European Countries
This figure describes the distance from meritocracy in 36 European countries between 2002 and 2017. Following Krauze and Slomczynski, the author defines meritocratic allocation of individuals by education to occupational status groups as a situation when more educated persons do not have jobs with lower status than less educated persons. Using data from the European Social Survey rounds 1 to 8, for each country-round, the author identifies the th…
Working with Data in the Cross-National Survey Harmonization Project: Outline of Programming Decisions
In the Harmonization Project we use data from 22 cross-national survey projects that cover a total of 142 countries or territories over a time span of almost 50 years (1966–2013). The large volume of the data, their multilevel structure as well as the large number of source files encouraged us to develop a set of custom tools for extracting, transforming, and loading data into a common database that allows for efficient automation of repeatable a…
On the Asphalt Path to Divinity
This article presents one of the many faces of contemporary Islam in the Balkans, that of the Bektashi community in Albania, and specifically the Sari Saltik teqe (sanctuary) on Kruja mountain. In so doing, it sheds light on the role of religion in 'post-atheist' Albania, while taking into account major changes to the religious landscape in the post-communist, and arguably post-transformation context. The essay ethnographically examines the chall…
A quem pertence o estudo da democracia? Sociologia, ciência política e a promessa da interdisciplinaridade na Sociologia política desde 1945
Interdisciplinaridade é a integração entre duas ou mais disciplinas que produz conhecimento emergente, original, interessante e útil. A interdisciplinaridade é mais promissora quando a relação entre as disciplinas integradas é forte e simétrica. A sociologia política já foi considerada uma ponte natural entre as disciplinas de sociologia e ciência política. Contudo, em diversas medidas bibliométricas da base de citações da Web of Science entre 19…
Working with Data in the Cross-National Survey Harmonization Project: Outline of Programming Decisions
In the Harmonization Project we use data from 22 cross-national survey projects that cover a total of 142 countries or territories over a time span of almost 50 years (1966–2013). The large volume of the data, their multilevel structure as well as the large number of source files encouraged us to develop a set of custom tools for extracting, transforming, and loading data into a common database that allows for efficient automation of repeatable a…
Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012
Professional events that feature face-to-face interaction of social scientists from across the world are, next to publications and research, important forms of scientific knowledge production and dissemination. Thus, they are vital to the World Science System (WSS). Like other WSS elements, scholarly involvement in international social science events is characterized by unequal cross-national representation. This article focuses in-depth on the I…
How Far From Meritocracy? A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis of European Countries
This figure describes the distance from meritocracy in 36 European countries between 2002 and 2017. Following Krauze and Slomczynski, the author defines meritocratic allocation of individuals by education to occupational status groups as a situation when more educated persons do not have jobs with lower status than less educated persons. Using data from the European Social Survey rounds 1 to 8, for each country-round, the author identifies the th…
Does Interviewers’ Age Affect Their Assessment of Respondents’ Understanding of Survey Questions? Evidence From the European Social Survey
General population surveys target the entire adult populations of participating countries, where, in many advanced societies, older respondents constitute an ever increasing share. Reflecting these processes, in the European Social Survey (ESS), the proportion of older respondents has been increasing.2 Prior research has found that older respondents are more often assessed by interviewers as having problems with understanding survey questions. Th…
Changes or Cross‐National Differences? Effects of Economic Inequality on Protest Participation
Objective The association between economic inequality and protest participation has attracted much scholarly attention, and yet empirical tests of this association remain unsatisfactory. Methods Applying a multilevel model to the eight‐wave repeated cross‐sectional data set from the European Social Survey, analyses presented in this article distinguish between cross‐national and longitudinal differences in economic inequality to investigate their…
Democratic values, education, and political trust
This article examines the links between education, democratic values, and political trust. Research on education systems as carriers of modern orientations and democratic values worldwide predicts that educated individuals will exhibit more democratic values than less educated ones, regardless of the country’s level of democracy. In the political culture approach, political trust can be understood as a reflection of the congruence or incongruence…
Marketplace of indicators: Inconsistencies between country trends of measures of the rule of law
Social scientists can choose from among multiple quality of governance indicators which use different conceptualizations of governance and its components, rely on different data sources, and employ different aggregation and scaling techniques. Despite all differences, these indicators are commonly found to be strongly correlated, which makes the choice of indicator for a given analysis seem inconsequential. We focus on rule of law indicators to d…
The Economy and Governance as Determinants of Political Trust in Europe: An Analysis of the European Values Study and World Values Survey, 1990-2019
Trust in state institutions is essential for the stability and legitimacy of political regimes. Understood in evaluative terms, political trust has often been linked to the performance of the state and its institutions. The macro-level sources of trust, however, are not well understood owing to the scarcity of empirical tests beyond cross-sectional analyses. This paper examines economic performance and the quality of governance as determinants of…
The Political Parties Crosswalk for mapping party codes in cross-national surveys to Party Facts IDs
The Political Parties Crosswalk (PPC) maps party codes used in questions about party preferences in European cross-national public opinion surveys to Party Facts IDs, which are commonly used identifiers of parties in political science datasets. The PPC, a data linkage tool, supports research that combines data on party support from surveys with characteristics of parties, and in particular, facilitates research that combines data from different s…
The winner takes all the trust: Populism, democracy, and winner-loser gaps in political trust in Central and Southern Europe
Studies typically find that supporters of populist parties exhibit low political trust. Drawing on research on winner-loser gaps in political support and the consequences of political polarization on attitudes, I re-examine the association between populism and political trust taking into account the supported party’s status in or outside of government, distinguishing between government leaders and junior coalition partners. I analyze data from th…
Support for democracy in ego‐centered social contexts
Objective We investigate the influence of social contexts on democratic attitudes. Methods We use a novel survey data set with data from a nationally representative sample of Polish residents (egos) and their friends and acquaintances (alters). Results Controlling for several factors defined on the ego‐ and alter‐levels, we find a positive relationship between alters’ and ego's endorsement of democracy over nondemocratic alternatives. This effect…
Combining multiple survey sources: A reproducible workflow and toolbox for survey data harmonization
Ex-post harmonization of survey data creates new opportunities for research by extending the geographical and/or time coverage of analyses. Researchers increasingly combine data from different survey projects to analyze them as a single dataset, and while teams engaged in data harmonization continue to expand the information they provide to end users, there are still no commonly agreed standards for the documentation of data processing. Existing …
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: Performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization
Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine
The European Union serves as an important aspirational and geopolitical reference in the societies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and, thus, their pro- and anti-EU sentiments traditionally serve as a synthetic indicator of political values, attitudes, and preferences. At the same time, since at least the 1970s, the social sciences have treated generational replacement as an important factor in political change. Our goal is, therefor…
Kish grid vs birthday procedures: Survey refusal rates by the type of within-household selection procedure in the European Social Survey
Two approaches to within-household selection of target respondents dominate cross-national surveys of the general population: the Kish grid and birthday procedures. The Kish grid is a rigorous probabilistic approach expected to produce higher-quality samples. However, its requirement to construct a complete household register is intrusive and may increase refusals. Conversely, birthday procedures, which do not require a household roster, may resu…
Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in Covid-19 preprints
Replications are important for assessing the reliability of published findings. However, they are costly, and it is infeasible to replicate everything. Accurate, fast, lower-cost alternatives such as eliciting predictions could accelerate assessment for rapid policy implementation in a crisis and help guide a more efficient allocation of scarce replication resources. We elicited judgements from participants on 100 claims from preprints about an e…
Does polarization increase participation? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Growing concerns with political polarization have led to a proliferation of research on its consequences. This paper presents results of a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of 25 articles that study the effects of polarization on participation. We categorize studies depending on polarization type (affective or ideological), level (individual or system), and participation type (electoral or non-electoral), to analyze the theoretical a…
Donor Dependency, Embeddedness and Organizational Structure of Civil Society: An Analysis of a Global Sample of Actors Active in the Field of Corporate Accountability
Faced with the growing influence of multinational corporations on global politics and economy, civil society organizations play an increasing role in holding corporations accountable for human rights violations and environmental degradation. However, the effectiveness of global civil society in this role and the consequences of power dynamics between donors and funded organizations for corporate accountability (CA) strategies are still disputed. …
Effects of political polarization on non-electoral participation
Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis
Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects political trust to democratic legitimacy, highlights trust’s behavioural and attitudinal consequences, and underscores its contextual character as a form of political support, we hypothesize that political trust exerts a positive effect on subsequent changes in democratic quality, but only…
Political science (17 works) · Politics (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works)