Professor Jacek Sroka, PhD, DSc

A graduate of the University of Wrocław, political scientist, full professor (title conferred by the President of the Republic of Poland in October 2010). He specializes in public policy, public administration, deliberation, participation, and co-decision-making. A student of Prof. Ryszard Herbut. Recipient of scholarships from the NATO Fellowship, Jean Monnet, and TEMPUS programs (during his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna, under the academic supervision of Prof. Georg Winckler). As a project manager and researcher, he has participated in 24 national and international research projects. He is a long-standing expert for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, based in Dublin, and a regular contributor to The Andrzej Bączkowski “Dialog” Center for Social Partnership in Warsaw.

Author of domestic and international scientific, research, and analytical studies, including: 5 monographs authored alone, 12 co-authored monographs, 3 edited monographs, 7 co-edited monographs, 160 articles and chapters, as well as approximately 70 expert reports and 30 popular science articles. He has completed a number of research fellowships, including in Ankara, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Brno, Donetsk, Dresden, Galway, Geneva, Lecce, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Málaga, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Vienna, Vilnius, and Wuppertal. He has collaborated with domestic and foreign government and local government agencies, domestic and foreign research institutes, as well as with NGOs, labor unions, and employers’ organizations. Recipient of university awards and one ministerial award. He has held and continues to hold academic positions by election and appointment. Reviewer in numerous doctoral, habilitation, and professorial proceedings, including those abroad. He has supervised eight doctoral candidates and approximately three hundred master’s and bachelor’s degree candidates. He is currently supervising four English-speaking doctoral candidates at the Doctoral School of the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków.

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4432-3720
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hEl6cokAAAAJ&hl=pl
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacek-Sroka-3

Research areas: public policy; public administration; social and civic dialogue; participatory deliberation; co-decision-making; industrial relations; political, electoral, and party systems; regional and local development.

Publications:

1. Co-determination in public policy, J. Sroka, “Parliamentary Review” 2019, 4(153), pp. 71-86.
2. The Breakdown of Industrial Relations in Europe as a Prelude to the Economy 4.0, “Przegląd europejski” 2019, p. 9-29
3. Participatory Budgeting in Hrubieszów, Poland, as an Example of Residents’ Sustainable Participation in Shaping Public Expenditure, co-authored with J. Sroka, B. Pawlica, W. Ufel, “Studies in Public Policy” 2023, 1(10), pp. 41-56.
4. Deliberative Empowered Democracy—The Systemic Position of the Actor and the Components of Public Decision-Making. An Attempt to Expand and Reinterpret Luigi Bobbio’s Model Proposal , “Teoria Polityki” 7(1), pp. 121–146.
5. Is Arend Lijphart’s Model Still Valid? Political Parties, Interest Groups, Pluralism, and Corporatism , J. Sroka, “Political Theory” 2024, no. 10, pp. 177-206.
6. Being For, or Even Against: Logical Culture, Types of Argumentation Modes in Political Discourses, and the Leading Role of Everyday Pragmatism, J. Sroka, “Teoria Polityki” 2024, no. 10, p. 211-232.
7. Too Many or Too Few Options? The Causes of a Lack of Synergy in the Knowledge Regime and Perspectives on Modeling Change Using Contemporary Public Behavioralism Methods , “Studies in Public Policy” 2025 12(3), p. 51-76.
8. Corporatism and Pluralism as Fuzzy Sets and the Place of the Polish—Unstable—Version of Social Dialogue in the Categorization of European Industrial Relations, (in:) “Social Dialogue—Ruts and Crossroads,” I. Zakrzewska, J. Gardawski (eds.), Warsaw: CPS Dialog, p. 203-237.
9. A Deliberative Tortoise or a Referendum Hare? The Evolution of Participatory Budgeting in Poland and Its Future Prospects , “Studia Politologiczne,” vol. 80(2/2026), pp. 104–127.