Articles

Kubicki, Paweł, Mikołaj Pawlak, Adriana Mica. 2026. Sweet, but Confusing: Failure and Palatability in Polish Disability Policy. „Critical Policy Studies” (forthcoming).

Mica, Adriana, Gertrude J. Fraser, Bashir Bello, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki. (2025). “Harnessing Ignorance? Resources for Action and Resistance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis in Nigeria.” Angelaki 30(2), 133–145.

Mica, A., Fraser, G. J., Pawlak, M., & Kubicki, P. (2024). Fracasopolicy: toward a critical typology of policy failures. Globalizations22(4), 489–506. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2386776

Mica, Adriana, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki. 2023.  “Failure Privilege in Policymaking: Exploitation, (In)visibilization, and Future Projection in Abortion Policy in Poland.East European Politics and Societies38(1): 148-177 (original work published 2024).

Mica, Adriana,  Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki. 2023. “Expectations of Failure: Political Risks in the Moral Economy of Ignorance and Social Injustice.” Sociologica 17(3): 75–97.

Kubicki, Paweł, Mikołaj Pawlak, Adriana Mica. 2020. “Proces tworzenia polityki publicznej wobec niepełnosprawności.” Polityka Społeczna 10(559): 22-29.

Horolets, Anna, Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki. 2020. “Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations: The ‘Refugees’ in the Polish Academic Discourse Before and After the 2015 Refugee Crisis.“ East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 34(3): 730-751.

Kubicki, Paweł, Mikołaj Pawlak, Adriana Mica, Anna Horolets. 2019. “Porażka w polityce publicznej.” Kwartalnik Kolegium Ekonomiczno-Społecznego Studia i Prace 37(1): 13–41.

Kubicki, Paweł, Mikołaj Pawlak, Adriana Mica, Anna Horolets. 2017. “Wyjście z cienia: Polityka uchodźcza w sytuacji kryzysu.” Polityka Społeczna 9(522): 22–28.

Mica, Adriana. 2017. “The Unintended Consequences in New Economic Sociology: Why Still Not Taken Seriously?” Social Science Information 56(4): 544-566.

Mica, Adriana. 2016. “Towards a Typology of Hybrid Formalities and Informalities” Polish Sociological Review (2) 194: 139-153.

Mica, Adriana. 2014. “Weber’s «Essential Paradox of Social Action»: What Can Sociology of the Unintended Learn from Public Policy Analysis?” Profilaktyka Społeczna i Resocjalizacja 23: 71-95.

Mica, Adriana. 2013. From Diffusion to Translation and Back. Disembedding–Re-embedding and Re-invention in Sociological Studies of Diffusion.” Polish Sociological Review 1 (181): 3-19.

Mica, Adriana. 2011. “Consequences of Diffusion of Innovations – Trap-Neuter-Return in Bucharest, Romania.” Societas/Communitas 2 (12): 269-290.

Mica, Adriana. 2011. “Skandal i panika moralna.” Tematy z Szewskiej 2 (6): 33-41.

Mica, Adriana. 2010. “Moral Panic, Risk or Hazard Society – the Relevance of a Theoretical Model and Framings of Maidan Dogs in Chisinău and Bucharest.” Polish Sociological Review 1 (169): 39-61.

Mica, Adriana. 2009. ”Reply to Disclosure Scandals in Romania Political Parties and the Romanian Orthodox Church.” Polish Sociological Review 1 (165): 41-56.

Mica, Adriana. 2008. “Discussion on the 1977 Jiu Valley Strike as Scandal in Romania.” Sfera politicii 16 (129-130): 31-42.

Mica, Adriana. 2005. “Workers and Intellectuals in Communist and Early Post-Communist Romania.” Archival Research Papers (ARP) – Open Society Archives.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Mica, Adriana. 2021. “(book review) ‘Why Austerity Persists. By Jon Shefner and Cory Blad. Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2019. PP. vi+203. $69.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback)’.” American Journal of Sociology 126 (5): 1295-1297.

Mica, Adriana. 2019. “When Things Don’t Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence.” European Societies 22 (1): 151-154.

Mica, Adriana. 2018. “Theories and Social Mechanisms: Essays in Honour of Mohammed Cherkaoui, volumes one and two / Including a Symposium on Albert O. Hirschman.European Societies 20 (4) 694-698.

Mica, Adriana. 2017. “A Review of The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty First Century (Jennifer Welsh 2016 Anansi) and Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refuge System (Alexander Betts and Paul Collier 2017 Allen Lane).” Papers of Social Pedagogy 1 (6).

Mica, Adriana. 2016. “Imagined futures: fictional expectations and capitalist dynamics.” European Societies 19: 115-117.

Mica, Adriana. 2016. “Emerging from Turbulence: Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today, by Leon Grunberg and Sarah Moore. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 195 pp. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781442248540.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 45: 602-604.

Mica, Adriana. 2016. “Vollmer, Hendrik, 2013: The Sociology of Disruption, Disaster and Social Change: Punctuated Cooperation. New York: Cambridge University Press.” economic sociology_the European electronic newsletter 17 (3): 50-51.

Mica, Adriana. 2014. “A Sociological Contribution to HAHR’s Open Forum on Jeremy Adelman’s (2013) Biography of Albert O. Hirschman.” Polish Sociological Review 186: 243-249.

Mica, Adriana. 2013. “Review: »Challenging the Innovation Paradigm« By Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrants (eds.). 2012; 272 pages; Routledge: New York and Oxon.” Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice 15 (3): 393-394.

Mica, Adriana. 2011. “Alejandro Portes, Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010.” Polish Sociological Review 3 (175): 411-416.

Mica, Adriana. 2011. “Janine R. Wedel, Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market, New York: Basic Books, 2009.” Polish Sociological Review 2 (174): 263-266.

Mica, Adriana. 2009. “Coal Miners from JiuValley – from Moral Panic to Moral Anxiety. Discussion of Jack R. Friedman and David A. Kideckel.” Societas/Communitas 1 (7): 281-285.

 

CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUES

Mica, Adriana, Marta Olcoń-Kubicka, and Katarzyna Wyrzykowska. 2017. “Workshop Review: New Economic Sociology and Sociology: Where Do They Meet? Where Do They Diverge? Warsaw, May 22–23, 2017.” Journal of Economic Sociology 4: 194-198.

Mica, Adriana, and Rafał Wiśniewski. 2012. “Workshop on Embeddedness and Embedding. Conference of the Polish Sociological Association, the University of Gdańsk and the Kashubian Institute, Gdańsk, 14-15 May 212.” Polish Sociological Review 3 (179): 443-446.

Mica, Adriana, and Iwona Zielińska. 2010. “The Sociology of Relation among Humans, Non-Humans and Hybrids. 10-11 May, 2010. Gdańsk, Poland.” Polish Sociological Review 3 (171): 355-357.