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Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland: New Book
The Political Inequality project announces our new book, Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland: Women’s Protests during the Pandemic, edited by Adrianna Zabrzewska & Joshua K. Dubrow and published by IFiS PAN Publishers. This book was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2016/23/B/HS6/03916). In autumn 2020, as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic…
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Introducing PaReSoGo, Dataset on Party Representation of Social Groups
PaReSoGo at a Glance Why PaReSoGo – Party Representation of Social Groups? Parties and parliamentarians are charged with the responsibility to express and translate the voice of the masses in the legislature. A classic concern is the extent to which political parties who attained seats in parliament represent the masses; a smaller current in the…
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New Book: Gender Quotas in the Post-Communist World
Gender Quotas in the Post-Communist World: Voice of the Parliamentarians Edited by Joshua K. Dubrow and Adrianna Zabrzewska This is a sourcebook on gender quotas in nations that experienced multiple generations of Communist Party rule. It includes, for the first time in English, the complete historic parliamentary debate in Poland on the 2010 gender quota law.…
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Politics and Inequality Conference: Program and Abstracts
We are pleased to present the final program and the titles and abstracts for the conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” December 12 – 14, 2018, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 72 Nowy Swiat, Warsaw, Poland Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw December 2018: PROGRAM…
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Catherine Bolzendahl to Deliver a Keynote Speech at Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw
Catherine Bolzendahl ( @C_Bolzendahl ) of the University of California – Irvine will deliver a keynote speech at the conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, December 12 – 14, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. Professor Bolzendahl’s keynote title: “Women’s…
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Frederick Solt to Deliver a Keynote Speech at Politics and Inequality Conference in Warsaw
Frederick Solt ( @fredericksolt ) of the University of Iowa will deliver a keynote speech at the conference, “Politics and Inequality across Nations and Time: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, December 12 – 14, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. Professor Solt’s keynote title at the political…
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Political Inequality Explained
Here is a short video by Joshua K. Dubrow based on Chapter 1 of the book, Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy
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Political Inequality and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
In my Social Stratification and Mobility course I teach at the University of Warsaw, I spent the first five weeks relating social stratification topics to the U.S. presidential election, focusing on the following topics: political inequality more generally, race, gender and social class (and intersections). Most of the slides concern basics in social stratification with empirical…
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