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dr hab. Natalia Letki

Principal Investigator

Natalia Letki is the Principal Investigator of the „Valuing Refugee Policy” Project. She specializes in comparative research on citizens’ attitudes and behaviour, with emphasis on the significance of social and institutional context.

Dr hab. Natalia Letki holds a DPhil from Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2002), where she subsequently was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow (2002-2005). Since coming to Poland in 2005, she has run numerous research projects, including ERC StG 240830 “Public Goods through Private Eyes. Exploring Citizens’ Attitudes to Public Goods and the State in Central Eastern Europe” (PI, 2009-2014), PROVIDE: PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry, Horizon2020 Programme (Country Coordinator for Poland, 2015 – 2018), Foundation for Polish Science ‘Idee dla Polski’ grant (PI, 2009 – 2014).

She has trained as a sociologist, but her research falls at the intersection of sociology, political science and psychology, as she researches attitudes and behaviour towards public goods, including tax and pro-environmental behaviour and co-production, as well as social capital, social trust and corruption. She also has an extensive experience in research on ethnic minorities, and party policy and electoral strategy in post-Communist countries. She is particularly interested in the conditioning effect of social and spatial context.
Methodologically, she specializes in quantitative survey research, including survey experiments. She is widely experienced in working with cross-national survey data, including survey design and implementation.

Selected Publications 

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Letki, N., Walentek, D., Dinesen, P.T & Liebe, U. (forthcoming). „Has the war in Ukraine changed Europeans’ preferences on refugee policy? Evidence from a panel experiment in Germany, Hungary and Poland.” Journal of European Public Policy.

 

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Letki, N., Walentek, D., Dinesen, P.T & Liebe, U. (online first). „Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy.West European Politics.

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Letki, N., Górecki, M.A. & Gendźwiłł, A. (2023). „They accept bribes, we accept bribery: Conditional effects of corrupt encounters on evaluation of public institutions.British Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 690-697.

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Kossowska, M., Letki, N., Zaleśkiewicz, T., & Wichary, Sz. (2022). Human Behaviour in Pandemics: Social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis, London: Routledge [in Polish: Kossowska, M., Letki, N., Zaleśkiewicz, T., & Wichary, Sz. (2020). Człowiek w obliczu pandemii. Psychologiczne i społeczne uwarunkowania zachowań w warunkach kryzysu zdrowotnego, Kraków: Smak Słowa.]

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Letki, N. & Górecki, MA. (2021). Social norms moderate the effect of tax system on tax evasion: Evidence from a large‑scale survey experiment.Journal of Business Ethics, 172, 727-746.

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Czajkowski, M., Zagórska, K., Letki, N., Tryjanowski, P., & Wąs, A. (2021). „Drivers of farmers’ willingness to adopt extensive farming practices in a globally important bird area”, Land Use Policy, 107(August) 104223.

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Letki, N., & Kukołowicz, P. (2020). “Are minorities free riders? Applying the social resistance framework to public goods production in Central‐Eastern Europe”, European Journal of Political Research, 59(1), 137-159.

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Letki, N., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., & Kukołowicz, P. (2019). “The effects of neighbourhood disorder on life satisfaction of ethnic majority and minority group members”, Social Psychological Bulletin, 14(2), 1-24.

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Letki, N. (2018). “Trust in newly democratic regimes”. The Oxford handbook of social and political trust, 15, 335-356.

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Letki, N. & Mierina, I. (2014). “Inequality and social capital in post-Communist Europe”. Social Capital and Economics. Social Values, Power and Social Identity, Routledge, 169-190.

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Letki, N. & Mierina, I. (2014). “Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic contextSocial Science Research 49(1): 217-233.

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Letki, N., Brzeziński, M., & Jancewicz, B. (2014). “The rise of inequalities in Poland and their impacts: When politicians don’t care but citizens do”. Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries. Thirty Countries’ Experiences, Oxford University Press, 488-513.

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Tavits, M. & Letki, N. (2014). “From values to interests? The evolution of party competition in new democracies”, Journal of Politics 76(1): 246-258.

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Tavits, M. & Letki, N. (2009). “When left is right: Party ideology and policy in post-communist Europe”, American Political Science Review 103(4): 555-569.

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Letki, N. (2008). “Does diversity erode social cohesion? Social capital and race in British neighbourhoods”, Political Studies, 56(1), 99-126.

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Letki, N., & Evans, G. (2005). “Endogenizing social trust: democratization in East-Central Europe”, British Journal of Political Science, 35(3), 515-529.

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Letki, N. (2004). “Socialization for participation? Trust, membership, and democratization in East-Central Europe”, Political Research Quarterly, 57(4), 665-679. (WPSA 2005 PRQ Best Article Award)

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Letki, N. (2002). “Lustration and democratisation in East-Central Europe”, Europe-Asia Studies, 54(4), 529-552.

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