Irina Tomescu‐dubrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4527007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina Tomescu‐dubrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomescu‐dubrow |
| SIGNATURE | DUBROW I T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7941-522X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book exa…
Ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data: Advances in methodological and substantive inquiries
Contacting a public official: Concept and measurement in cross‐national surveys, 1960s–2010s
Background In the digital age, contacting a public official is a direct, low‐cost means of influence, but most cross‐national surveys ignore it. Objective We go in‐depth on “contact” to define it, present how it has appeared in major cross‐national surveys since the 1960s, and how survey respondents might understand it today. We then explore its popularity and determinants in Europe across time. Methods We use the Survey Data Recycling project's …
Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach
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, very few scholars systematically examine the impact of the survey data quality on substantive resul…
The Polish Panel Survey, Polpan
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 the profound transformations that the anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe triggered. To under…
Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding
In recent decades, many countries ranging from quasidemocratic regimes to well-established democracies have faced democratic backsliding. In this study, we draw on Foa and Mounk and other related literature to examine the effects of regime delegitimation on democratic backsliding, focusing on youth's trust in political institutions-parliament, legal systems, and political parties-relative to trust of the older population. We use an unbalanced pan…
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…
Analyzing Social Change with the Polish Panel Survey, Polpan 1988–2013
In the Introduction to this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology we illustrate the centrality of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN to empirical research on main social, economic and political phenomena that shape the social structure. POLPAN 1988–2013 is the longest continuously run panel survey in Central and Eastern Europe that focuses on changes in the social structure with individuals as the units of analysis. To date, it is t…
Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling
This article describes challenges and solutions to ex post harmonization of survey data in the social sciences based on the big data project “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” This project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative perspective by proposing a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest through…
Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy
Public protest is usually conceived as challenge to the state, overlooking protest performed by governments within state structures. We identify local government opposition to federal policy decisions as a combination of contentious politics and policy innovation. This theoretical framework highlights the role of social structural conditions, political culture, and contextual pressures, which we examine using local government opposition to the US…
Locus of Territorial Attachments: Intergroup Differences and Macrostructural Determinants of Subnational and Supranational Identities
In this paper, we elaborate on Hooghe and Marks's (2001) conceptualization of territorial attachments. We assume that multi-identities related to the territory should reveal the locus on the continuum from local to national. On the basis of IntUne data, we build a ten-point scale, assigning high weights to multi-identity involving local and regional attachments and low weights to the attachments on only a national level and to the lack of territo…
Modeling Occupational Careers for a Turbulent Economy: From Simple to Complex Approaches
Using data from the Polish Panel Survey, we analyze changes in occupational-career patterns by means of trajectories defined as the sequence and duration of work positions expressed on a numerical scale on different timelines: calendar years, age, and years in the labor force. We apply a program (CONVERTER) that transforms the floating format of the occupational history (recorded with dates at the beginning and end of each job) into a fixed forma…
Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data
In this cross-national study, soft political-protest behavior is defined as participation in a legal demonstration, signing a petition, or contacting government officials. We find that in Europe in 2006 (1) the proportion of political protesters is significantly higher in old democracies than in the new, predominantly postcommunist, democracies, and (2) the greater the income inequality in both old and new democracies, the lower the proportion of…
Representation of Post-Communist European Countries in Cross-National Public Opinion Surveys
The degree of political rights and the level of economic well-being of a given country can indicate how much this country collaborates with other countries on survey research
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Romania: Changes in the Patterns of Flows and Relationships in the Postcommunist Era
This article examines flows (movements between origin and destination positions in the social structure) and relationships (dependencies of the destination positions on positions of origin) in terms of two conceptualizations of indi-viduals' locations in the social structure: social classe (SC) and socioeconomic index (SEI). Using Romanian data for1970 (full-fledged communism), 1988 (late communism), and 2000 (early capitalism) demonstrates that:…
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Children Deprived of Parental Care as a Persisting Social Problem in Romania: Postcommunist Transformation and Institutional Inefficiency
Building on Merton's notion of the unintended consequences of purposive social action, this article examines the Romanian government's response to the social problem of children deprived of parental care and the consequences of institutional action. Based on historical analysis of legislative data and interviews with actors in the Romanian child welfare system, I discuss the mechanism behind the perpetuation of the child abandonment social proble…
Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data
In this cross-national study, soft political-protest behavior is defined as participation in a legal demonstration, signing a petition, or contacting government officials. We find that in Europe in 2006 (1) the proportion of political protesters is significantly higher in old democracies than in the new, predominantly postcommunist, democracies, and (2) the greater the income inequality in both old and new democracies, the lower the proportion of…
Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling
This article describes challenges and solutions to ex post harmonization of survey data in the social sciences based on the big data project “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” This project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative perspective by proposing a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest through…
Children Deprived of Parental Care as a Persisting Social Problem in Romania: Postcommunist Transformation and Institutional Inefficiency
Building on Merton's notion of the unintended consequences of purposive social action, this article examines the Romanian government's response to the social problem of children deprived of parental care and the consequences of institutional action. Based on historical analysis of legislative data and interviews with actors in the Romanian child welfare system, I discuss the mechanism behind the perpetuation of the child abandonment social proble…
Representation of Post-Communist European Countries in Cross-National Public Opinion Surveys
The degree of political rights and the level of economic well-being of a given country can indicate how much this country collaborates with other countries on survey research
Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach
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, very few scholars systematically examine the impact of the survey data quality on substantive resul…
The Polish Panel Survey, Polpan
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 the profound transformations that the anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe triggered. To under…
Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding
In recent decades, many countries ranging from quasidemocratic regimes to well-established democracies have faced democratic backsliding. In this study, we draw on Foa and Mounk and other related literature to examine the effects of regime delegitimation on democratic backsliding, focusing on youth's trust in political institutions-parliament, legal systems, and political parties-relative to trust of the older population. We use an unbalanced pan…
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…
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Romania: Changes in the Patterns of Flows and Relationships in the Postcommunist Era
This article examines flows (movements between origin and destination positions in the social structure) and relationships (dependencies of the destination positions on positions of origin) in terms of two conceptualizations of indi-viduals' locations in the social structure: social classe (SC) and socioeconomic index (SEI). Using Romanian data for1970 (full-fledged communism), 1988 (late communism), and 2000 (early capitalism) demonstrates that:…
Contacting a public official: Concept and measurement in cross‐national surveys, 1960s–2010s
Background In the digital age, contacting a public official is a direct, low‐cost means of influence, but most cross‐national surveys ignore it. Objective We go in‐depth on “contact” to define it, present how it has appeared in major cross‐national surveys since the 1960s, and how survey respondents might understand it today. We then explore its popularity and determinants in Europe across time. Methods We use the Survey Data Recycling project's …
Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy
Public protest is usually conceived as challenge to the state, overlooking protest performed by governments within state structures. We identify local government opposition to federal policy decisions as a combination of contentious politics and policy innovation. This theoretical framework highlights the role of social structural conditions, political culture, and contextual pressures, which we examine using local government opposition to the US…
Locus of Territorial Attachments: Intergroup Differences and Macrostructural Determinants of Subnational and Supranational Identities
In this paper, we elaborate on Hooghe and Marks's (2001) conceptualization of territorial attachments. We assume that multi-identities related to the territory should reveal the locus on the continuum from local to national. On the basis of IntUne data, we build a ten-point scale, assigning high weights to multi-identity involving local and regional attachments and low weights to the attachments on only a national level and to the lack of territo…
Children Deprived of Parental Care as a Persisting Social Problem in Romania: Postcommunist Transformation and Institutional Inefficiency
Building on Merton's notion of the unintended consequences of purposive social action, this article examines the Romanian government's response to the social problem of children deprived of parental care and the consequences of institutional action. Based on historical analysis of legislative data and interviews with actors in the Romanian child welfare system, I discuss the mechanism behind the perpetuation of the child abandonment social proble…
Representation of Post-Communist European Countries in Cross-National Public Opinion Surveys
The degree of political rights and the level of economic well-being of a given country can indicate how much this country collaborates with other countries on survey research
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Romania: Changes in the Patterns of Flows and Relationships in the Postcommunist Era
This article examines flows (movements between origin and destination positions in the social structure) and relationships (dependencies of the destination positions on positions of origin) in terms of two conceptualizations of indi-viduals' locations in the social structure: social classe (SC) and socioeconomic index (SEI). Using Romanian data for1970 (full-fledged communism), 1988 (late communism), and 2000 (early capitalism) demonstrates that:…
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Effects of Democracy and Inequality on Soft Political Protest in Europe: Exploring the European Social Survey Data
In this cross-national study, soft political-protest behavior is defined as participation in a legal demonstration, signing a petition, or contacting government officials. We find that in Europe in 2006 (1) the proportion of political protesters is significantly higher in old democracies than in the new, predominantly postcommunist, democracies, and (2) the greater the income inequality in both old and new democracies, the lower the proportion of…
Modeling Occupational Careers for a Turbulent Economy: From Simple to Complex Approaches
Using data from the Polish Panel Survey, we analyze changes in occupational-career patterns by means of trajectories defined as the sequence and duration of work positions expressed on a numerical scale on different timelines: calendar years, age, and years in the labor force. We apply a program (CONVERTER) that transforms the floating format of the occupational history (recorded with dates at the beginning and end of each job) into a fixed forma…
Ecological Determinants of Local Government Opposition to Federal Policy
Public protest is usually conceived as challenge to the state, overlooking protest performed by governments within state structures. We identify local government opposition to federal policy decisions as a combination of contentious politics and policy innovation. This theoretical framework highlights the role of social structural conditions, political culture, and contextual pressures, which we examine using local government opposition to the US…
Locus of Territorial Attachments: Intergroup Differences and Macrostructural Determinants of Subnational and Supranational Identities
In this paper, we elaborate on Hooghe and Marks's (2001) conceptualization of territorial attachments. We assume that multi-identities related to the territory should reveal the locus on the continuum from local to national. On the basis of IntUne data, we build a ten-point scale, assigning high weights to multi-identity involving local and regional attachments and low weights to the attachments on only a national level and to the lack of territo…
Analyzing Social Change with the Polish Panel Survey, Polpan 1988–2013
In the Introduction to this special issue of the International Journal of Sociology we illustrate the centrality of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN to empirical research on main social, economic and political phenomena that shape the social structure. POLPAN 1988–2013 is the longest continuously run panel survey in Central and Eastern Europe that focuses on changes in the social structure with individuals as the units of analysis. To date, it is t…
Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling
This article describes challenges and solutions to ex post harmonization of survey data in the social sciences based on the big data project “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” This project engages with the relationship between democracy and protest behavior in comparative perspective by proposing a theoretical model that explains variation in political protest through…
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…
Youth, Institutional Trust, and Democratic Backsliding
In recent decades, many countries ranging from quasidemocratic regimes to well-established democracies have faced democratic backsliding. In this study, we draw on Foa and Mounk and other related literature to examine the effects of regime delegitimation on democratic backsliding, focusing on youth's trust in political institutions-parliament, legal systems, and political parties-relative to trust of the older population. We use an unbalanced pan…
The Polish Panel Survey, Polpan
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 the profound transformations that the anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe triggered. To under…
Ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data: Advances in methodological and substantive inquiries
Contacting a public official: Concept and measurement in cross‐national surveys, 1960s–2010s
Background In the digital age, contacting a public official is a direct, low‐cost means of influence, but most cross‐national surveys ignore it. Objective We go in‐depth on “contact” to define it, present how it has appeared in major cross‐national surveys since the 1960s, and how survey respondents might understand it today. We then explore its popularity and determinants in Europe across time. Methods We use the Survey Data Recycling project's …
Survey Data Quality in Analyzing Harmonized Indicators of Protest Behavior: A Survey Data Recycling Approach
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, very few scholars systematically examine the impact of the survey data quality on substantive resul…
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book exa…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Social Capital and Networks (7 works) · Survey data collection (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works)