Professor Ireneusz Sadowski

Ireneusz Sadowski is a sociologist, professor at Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in research on social structure, public institutions, and – in particular – mutual relations between those two spheres. Lately he has undertaken research projects on determinants of institutionalized choice (both career choices and political choices) involving social networks and supply-demand approach in electoral analysis.

Research interests

• Social structure, social networks
• Institutional change, reforms of the state
• Socio-political cleavages, electoral studies
• Systemic transition and civil society
  

Selected publications

I. Sadowski, Ł. Zamęcki (2025) Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation. Research Policy 54 (1): 105-134
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324001835; DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.10513).

I. Sadowski, M. Kołczyńska, N. Teslyk (2025) Generational Changes in Attitudes toward the European Union in Poland and Ukraine. East European Politics and Societies 39(1): 186-207 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08883254241229729).

I. Sadowski (2024) Democratic backsliding against a rising wave of support for democracy? Explaining trends in attitudes toward democracy in Poland (1995–2021). International Sociology 39(6):698-720 (https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809241284).

I. Sadowski, A. Zawistowska, M. Muszyński (2024) Generational Change in Work-Related Agency Beliefs in Poland. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 76: 163-185 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-024-00956-0).

I. Sadowski (2023) A post-individualistic turn? Intergenerational change in self-orientation in Poland and Germany. International Journal of Comparative Sociology (OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231205599).

M. Kołczyńska, I. Sadowski (2022) Seeing the world through party-tinted glasses: performance evaluations and winner status in shaping political trust under high polarization, Acta Politica 58: 380-400 (DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00249-4).

J.E. Jackson, B.W. Mach, I. Sadowski (2022) Estimating peer political influence with large N observational data on ego-centered social networks, SOCIAL NETWORKS 70: 198-207 (DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2022.01.002).

I. Sadowski, A. Zawistowska (2020) The net effect of ability tilt in gendered STEM-related choices, Intelligence, Vol. 80 (DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2020.101439).

I. Sadowski, N. Pohorila (2018) Game of Seats: Electoral Rules, Revolutions, and Affiliation Switching in Ukraine, 1990–2014, East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 32(1): 142-167  (DOI: 10.1177/0888325417728771).

B.W. Mach, A. Manterys, I. Sadowski (2018) Individuals and Their Social Contexts, Warsaw: IPS PAS.

I. Sadowski (2018) The Constant Electoral Flux? Party System and the Circulation of Candidates and Parliamentarians in Poland, 1989–2011, International Journal of Sociology, Vol. 41(1): 34-59  (DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2018.1414502).

Selected projects

The third generation of Polish transformation (#3GEN): http://3gen.spoleczenstwo.pl/en/the-three-generations-of-polish-transformation/.

New institutionalism – theory and research: http://instytucjonalizm.uw.edu.pl/.

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