Dr Natalia Letki (Oxon) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology.
She is interested in political behaviour of citizens and political elites, especially in the context of systemic transformation. She is also interested in social capital, social trust, membership in voluntary associations, civic and political participation, civic morality and trustworthiness. She has researched their relation to the institutional political and economic context in the new and established democracies. Her current projects focus on citizens’ attitudes and behaviour towards public goods in post-communist transition. She also continues her earlier research with Margit Tavits on the dynamics of party competition in new post-communist democracies of East-Central Europe.
She was also an Associate of the Growing Inequalities’ Impacts project.
Before joining the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University she was an Assistant Professor at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland and a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in politics group in Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Recent publications
- Tavits, Margit and Natalia Letki. 2014. “From Values to Interests? The Evolution of Party Competition in New Democracies”, Journal of Politics, Vol. 76 No 1, 246-258.
- Natalia Letki and Inta Mierina. 2014. “Inequality and Social Capital in Post-Communist Europe”, with Inta Mierina, in: Social Capital and Economics: Social Values, Power, and Social Identity, Asimina Christoforou and John B. Davis (Eds), London: Routledge, pp. 147-168.
- Letki, Natalia, Michał Brzeziński and Barbara Jancewicz. 2014. “The rise of inequalities in Poland and their impacts: When politicians don’t care, but citizens do”, in: Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries, W. Salverda, B. Nolan, D. Checchi, I. Marx, S. McKnight, I.G. Toth and H. van der Werfhorst (Eds), Oxford University Press, pp. 488 – 513.
- Letki, Natalia. 2013. “Do Social Divisions Explain Political Choices? The Case of Poland”, in: Political Choice Matters: Explaining the strength of class and religious cleavages in cross-national perspective, G. Evans and N. D. De Graaf (Eds), Oxford University Press, pp. 337-359.
- Tavits, Margit and Natalia Letki. 2009. “When Left is Right: Party Ideology and Policy in Post-Communist Europe”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 103 No 4, 555-69.
- Letki, Natalia. 2009. “Civil Society and Social Capital”, in: Democratization, C. W. Haerpfer, R. Inglehart, C. Welzel, & P. Bernhagen (Eds), Oxford University Press, pp. 158-169.
- Letki, Natalia. 2009. “Social Capital in East-Central Europe”, in: A Handbook of Social Capital, G. T. Svendsen & G. L. H. Svendsen (Eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 162-176.
- Letki, Natalia. 2008. “Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Social Capital and Race in British Neighbourhoods”, Political Studies, Vol. 56 No. 1, 99-126.
