Researchers from the University of Warsaw, in cooperation with partners from Croatia and Switzerland, will examine the issue of inequality in Eastern European countries.
Prof. dr hab. Natalia Garner will lead the Polish part of the project entitled 'Mobilization around Inequalities: Navigating Deservingness, State Capacity, and Political Actors in Eastern Europe (RISE)', carried out with partners from Croatia and Switzerland. The researchers will investigate how citizens of Eastern Europe perceive different types of inequality – economic, ethnic, gender-based or related to sexual orientation – and why some of them become subjects of public debate while others do not. They will seek to answer the question of how the social sense of injustice translates (or does not) into specific political preferences and institutional action. The research will include, among other things, focus groups, surveys and interviews with politicians. The project brings a fresh perspective on the mechanisms of the politicisation of inequality and may help to develop more effective social policy. The project budget on the Polish side amounts to over PLN 790,000. The proposal was evaluated by the Swiss agency SNSF, and NCN together with the Croatian agency HRZZ accepted the results of this evaluation under the Weave programme.
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