“Public Goods through Private Eyes. Exploring Citizens’ Attitudes towards Public Goods and the State in Central-Eastern Europe” Project
Principal Investigator: dr hab. Natalia Letki
The project (ERC StG 240830) was devoted to designing and carrying out a full-scale comparative public opinion survey in 14 post-communist countries. It merged approaches from politics, sociology, economics and psychology to study people’s attitudes and behaviour towards public goods and common pool resources, such as healthcare, education or environment.
The project has applied novel methodologies to interview over 21000 people in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. The project focused on capturing the mechanisms underlying cooperation between citizens, and between citizens and the state in the context of provision of public goods and common pool resources. Data from interviews were combined with a range of social and economic indicators describing respondents’ immediate neighbourhood, as well as their country.
We are currently working on depositing the data in the public domain.
Project publications
Letki, N., Górecki, M.A. & Gendźwiłł, A. (online first). „They accept bribes, we accept bribery: Conditional effects of corrupt encounters on evaluation of public institutions.” British Journal of Political Science.
Letki, N., & Steen, T. (2021). „Social-psychological context moderates incentives to co-produce: Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment on park upkeep in an urban setting.” Public Administration Review, 81(5), 935-950.
Letki, N., & Górecki, M.A. (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.
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.
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.
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A., & Gërxhani, K. (2016). “Tax evasion and well-being: A study of the social and institutional context in Central and Eastern Europe”. European Journal of Political Economy, 45, 149-159.
Letki, N. & Mieriņa, I. (2015). “Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context”. Social Science Research, 49, 217-233.
Letki, N., & Mierina, I. (2014). “Inequality and social capital in post-communist Europe”. Social capital and economics: Social values, power and social identity, London: Routledge, 147-168
Tavits, M., & Letki, N. (2014). “From values to interests? The evolution of party competition in new democracies”. The Journal of Politics, 76(1), 246-258.
Górecki, M.A., & Marsh, M. (2014). “A decline of ‘friends and neighbours voting in Ireland? Local candidate effects in the 2011 Irish ‘earthquake election’”. Political Geography, 41, 11-20.
Mieriņa, I., & Cers, E. (2014). “Is communism to blame for political disenchantment in post-communist countries? Cohort analysis of adults’ political attitudes”. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(7), 1031-1061.
Górecki, M. A., & Kukołowicz, P. (2014). “Gender quotas, candidate background and the election of women: A paradox of gender quotas in open-list proportional representation systems”. Electoral Studies, 36, 65-80.
Górecki, M. A. (2013). “Election closeness, habit formation and voter turnout: Evidence from sixteen swedish elections”. Political Studies, 61, 234-248.
Mieriņa, I. (2014). “The vicious circle: Does disappointment with political authorities contribute to political passivity in Latvia?”. European Societies, 16(4), 615-637.
Kukołowicz, P. (2013). “Do voters read gender? Stereotypes as voting cues in electoral settings.” Polish Sociological Review, 182(2), 223-238.
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