Poland: a successful transition to budget sustainability? by Christopher Green, Mark J. Holmes, Tadeusz Kowalski

“…In this paper we evaluate the sustainability of the current fiscal policy regime in Poland, which has been in place for almost 10 years since the start of the economic reform process. …”
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Punk and anarchism: UK, Poland, Indonesia by Jim Donaghey

“…This thesis explores the relationships between punk and anarchism in the contemporary contexts of the UK, Poland, and Indonesia from an insider punk and anarchist perspective. …”
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Household water consumption: Insight from a survey in Greece and Poland by Yixing Shan, Lili Yang, Kim Perren, Yanmin Zhang

“…Determining the behavior of domestic water consumers can facilitate a more proactive approach to water demand management, and serves as the foundation for the development of any intervention strategies that seek to bring about sustained and substantial reductions in domestic water consumption. …”
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Facebook as an instrument of election campaigning and voters’ engagement: comparing Czechia and Poland by Vaclav Stetka, Paweł Surowiec, Jaromir Mazak

“…Finally, the study points to both gender gaps and gender as a strong predictor of user negativity, as female users – while constituting a minority of participants in both countries – tend to be significantly less negative in their comments towards the home party. …”
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The Rroma and education: a historical introduction to and a critical comparison of current educational provision for the Rroma in Poland and the United Kingdom by Ewa A.E. Kruczek-Steiger

“…This thesis seeks to provide an historical introduction to and a critical comparison of current educational provision for the Rroma in Poland and the United Kingdom. …”
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Statecraft strategies and housing financialization at the periphery: Post-socialist trajectories in Russia and Poland by Mirjam Büdenbender, Andrea Lagna

“…In this article, we address this shortcoming by examining the cases of Russia and Poland in the 1990-2018 period. We argue that in both contexts political elites implemented a radical market-oriented reshaping of housing finance. …”
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Poland and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union: from adaptation to Europeanisation? by Karolina Pomorska

“…Only later, does socialisation and learning result in changes to how national foreign policy is made, which then facilitates both changes to the substance of national policy and the uploading of national preferences to the EU level. A two-phase model of change is introduced which identifies April 2003, when Poland first became an active observer within the EU, as the date when Europeanisation began. …”
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Introducing GEOBIA to landscape imageability assessment: a multi-temporal case study of the nature reserve “Kózki”, Poland by Szymon Chmielewski, Andrzej Bochniak, Asya Natapov, Piotr Wężyk

“…Geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) is a primary remote sensing tool utilized in land-cover mapping and change detection. …”
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Establishing trust in experts during a crisis: expert trustworthiness and media use during the COVID-19 pandemic by Sabina Mihelj, Katherine Kondor, Vaclav Stetka

“…This paper asks whether the same factors apply during a major health crisis, and in relatively new democracies. …”
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Civil society, second society and the breakdown of communist regimes in central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania by Tracey F. Judson

“…In particular, it addresses the question of why the former European Communist regimes experienced differing modes of breakdown in 1989. The thesis adopts a comparative approach and focuses on the three different cases of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. …”
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“I don’t vote because I don’t want to get infected.” Pandemic, polarization and public trust during the 2020 Presidential Election in Poland by Sabina Mihelj, Damian Guzek, Vaclav Stetka

“…Overlapping with the time of the presidential election in Poland, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reconfigured the electoral campaign in terms of the electoral law and campaign strategies. …”
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A matter of supply and demand: the electoral performance of populist parties in three European countries by Stijn van Kessel

“…This paper assesses the electoral performance of populist parties in three European countries: the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom. In explaining the electoral performance of the populist parties in the three countries, the paper considers the agency of political parties in particular. …”
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The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37 (PDF) by Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany

“…Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. …”
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The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33 (PDF) by Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany

“…Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. …”
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The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 1: At the Edge of the Abyss: Essays, 1927–33 (XML) by Yankev Leshchinsky, Robert Brym, Eli Jany

“…Known as “the dean of Jewish sociologists” and “the father of Jewish demography,” Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937. …”
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Keeping private governance private: is FIFA blackmailing national governments? by Borja Garcia-Garcia, Henk-Erik Meier

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Mendl Mann’s 'The Fall of Berlin' (PDF) by Maurice Wolfthal

“…Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. …”
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Mendl Mann’s 'The Fall of Berlin' (XML) by Maurice Wolfthal

“…Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. …”
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A case study of internet of things: A wireless household water consumption monitoring system by Shuang-Hua Yang, Xi Chen, Xiaomin Chen, Lili Yang, Baichong Chao, Jiangtao Cao

“…A novel wireless water consumption monitoring system is designed, in which flow rate/temperature sensors are placed at different detection spots in a house to collect data, and the collected data is routed to a remote computer server via the home WiFi and the Internet. …”
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Math4Speed - a freely available measure of arithmetic fluency by Hannah D Loenneker, Krzysztof Cipora, Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Elien Bellon, Bert De Smedt, Javier García-Orza, Vaitsa Giantouli, Ismael Gutiérrez-Cordero, Katarzyna Lipowska, Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Xinru Yao, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Julia F Huber

“…We introduce the Math4Speed (M4S), a paper-and-pencil measure incorporating the four arithmetic operations with items of varying complexity. …”
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Pathways between types of crime and criminal social identity: A network approach by Daniel Boduszek, Agata Debowska, Kathryn Sharratt, Danielle McDermott, Nicole Sherretts, Dominic Willmott, Katarzyna Popiolek, Philip Hyland

“…Criminal social identity (CSI) is a factor for criminal behavior. CSI should therefore be a target of interventive strategies aiming to reduce the risk of re-offending. …”
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A benchmarking model for household water consumption based on adaptive logic networks by Xiaomin Chen, Shuang-Hua Yang, Lili Yang, Xi Chen

“…Real world data collected by a water consumption monitoring system installed in Sosnowiec, Poland and Skiathos, Greece is respectively used to build a model for each city. …”
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A diagnosis of construction and demolition waste generation and recovery practice in the European Union by Paola Villoria Sáez, Mohamed Osmani

“…Construction and demolition activities in the European Union (EU) are responsible for generating 850 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste (CDW) per year. As a result, the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) set a recovery target to attain 70% CDW recycling by 2020. …”
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A gravity model analysis of trade and direct investment in the Central and Eastern European Countries by Marie M. Stack

“…The opening up process of the central and eastern European (CEE) countries marked new beginnings in terms of greater integration of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) with Western Europe. Adopting a two-stage out-of-sample gravity equation approach to predicting East West trade patterns, a panel data set of bilateral exports from twelve EU countries to twenty OECD partner countries is estimated over the 1992-2003 period to examine how integrated the CEE countries are with the West European countries. …”
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Policy entrepreneurship and multi-level governance: a comparative study of European cross-border regions by Markus Perkmann

“…This is conceptualised as policy entrepreneurship and applied to a comparative case study analysis of three Euroregions: EUREGIO (Germany – Netherlands), Viadrina (Poland – Germany) and Tyrol (Austria – Italy). …”
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A media repertoires approach to selective exposure: news consumption and political polarization in Eastern Europe by Fanni Toth, Sabina Mihelj, Vaclav Stetka, Katherine Kondor

“…To address these questions, and also to bridge methodological and geographical gaps in existing research, this paper adopts a media repertoires approach to investigate selective news exposure and polarisation in four Eastern European countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. …”
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Club-militants, institutionalists, critics, moderns and globalists: A quantitative governance-based typology of football supporters by Borja Garcia-Garcia, Ramon Llopis-Goig

“…This article presents a quantitative typology of football fans’ attitudes towards governance. …”
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Are foreign banks in central and eastern Europe more efficient than domestic banks? by Christopher Green, Victor Murinde, Ivaylo A. Nikolov

“…Our measures of efficiency are based on standard microeconomic theory. Using a panel of 273 foreign and domestic banks located in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania for the period 1995 – 1999, we estimate a system of equations, consisting of an augmented translog cost function and two cost share equations. …”
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studi... by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Oonagh Markey

“…When changes in both height and BMI were considered, girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries (eg, Armenia and Azerbaijan), and boys in central and western Europe (eg, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, and Montenegro) had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI. …”
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Corrigendum: A mental odd-even continuum account: Some numbers may be “more odd” than others and some numbers may be “more even” than others (Front. Psychol. 9, 1081, (2018) 10.338... by L Heubner, Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, ML Schlenker, K Lipowska, SM Göbel, F Domahs, M Haman, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

“…The correct name for the Funder is the “National Science Center (NCN), Poland.” In addition, the correct funding number for the National Science Center (NCN), Poland is “2014/15/G/HS6/04604.” …”
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Supplementary information files for Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled ana... by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Oonagh Markey

“…When changes in both height and BMI were considered, girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries (eg, Armenia and Azerbaijan), and boys in central and western Europe (eg, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, and Montenegro) had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI. …”
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SaferWheels study on powered two-wheeler and bicycle accidents in the EU - Final report by Andrew Morris, Laurie Brown, Pete Thomas, R.J. Davidse, V. Phan, Dimitris Margaritis, D. Shingo Usami, M. Robibaro, A. Krupinska, K. Sicinska, A. Ziakopoulos, Athanasios Theofilatos, George Yannis

“…Road Safety remains a major societal issue within the European Union. …”
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Stepping-stone migration: Polish graduates in England by Aga Szewczyk

“…Third, the findings expose graduate migrant perceptions of becoming and being highly-skilled, and the role of university preparation, and other forms of post-graduate training and potentially strategic acquisitions of citizenship for labour market confidence to compete and undertake professional jobs in Poland and England. Fourth, the thesis stresses that migration is often a first step in graduate migrants life trajectories and it emphasises the importance of a stepping-stone migration , both socially and spatially, and which is embedded within individuals' life-phases and perceptions of home and place. …”
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Coming to terms with communist propaganda: post-communism, memory and generation by Sylwia Szostak, Sabina Mihelj

“…First, it seeks to contribute to existing research on the mediation of post-communist memory by considering the Polish case and specifically by focusing on audience memories of an iconic television series produced in communist Poland, Four Tankmen and a Dog (TVP, 1966-1970), set during World War Two. …”
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Investigative journalism in Central and Eastern Europe: autonomy, business models and democratic roles by Vaclav Stetka, Henrik Ornebring

“…This article presents a comparative study of investigative journalism in nine countries in the Central and Eastern European region (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia). …”
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The contribution of religiosity to ideology: Empirical evidences from five continents by Gian Vittorio Caprara, Michele Vecchione, Shalom H. Schwartz, Harald Schoen, Paul G. Bain, Joanne Silvester, Jan Cieciuch, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Gabriel Bianchi, Hasan Kirmanoglu, Cem Baslevent, Catalin Mamali, Jorge Manzi, Miyuki Katayama, Tetyana Posnova, Carmen Tabernero, Claudio Torres, Markku Verkasalo, Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Eva Vondráková, Maria Giovanna Caprara

“…However, the effect was substantial only in countries where religion has played a prominent role in the public sphere, such as Spain, Poland, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Turkey. …”
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How globalised really is European trade? by Huw Edwards

“…Using a new set of measures of concentration of trade, I suggest that the opening up of trade to date has been greatly exaggerated. …”
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The real exchange rate and the output response in four EU accession countries by Terence C. Mills, Eric J. Pentecost

“…The econometric results show that, inter alia, the real exchange rate is not an important determinant of the long-run level of GDP in the Czech Republic or Hungary, but that a real appreciation leads to a persistent fall in output in Poland and a sustained rise in output in Slovakia. …”
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Introduction to "Schubert varieties, equivariant cohomology and characteristic classes by Jarosław Buczynski, Mateusz Michalek, Elisa Postinghel

“…The conference IMPANGA15 took place in Będlewo (Poland) during the week 12–18 April 2015 and was organised by participants of the seminar IMPANGA. …”
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Supporters’ attitudes towards European football governance: structural dimensions and sociodemographic patterns by Borja Garcia-Garcia, Ramón Llopis-Goig

“…Drawing on concepts from sports governance literature, an online survey collects opinions of football fans in six European countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Poland, France, and Germany). The results indicate a high level of mistrust from the fans on national governing bodies and presidents and owners of football clubs. …”
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Safe haven or contagion? The disparate effects of Euro-zone crises on non-Euro-zone neighbours by Graham Bird, Wenti Du, Eric Pentecost, Thomas Willett

“…While there have been many studies that examine contagion within the Euro-zone, this paper investigates the potential contagion from changes in the Greek sovereign risk premium over 2009-2016, as measured by the yield on 10 year government bonds, to six European countries outside of the Euro-zone all of which operated a managed float against the Euro. We find evidence of contagion to potential Euro-zone ascendants (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland), but ‘flight to safety’ (or safe haven) effects for the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland.…”
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