Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Political Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Moldova
- Norway
- Poland
- The Condition and Perspectives of Polish Political Science in the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
The Condition and Perspectives of Polish Political Science in the Beginning of the 21st Century
from Poland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Political Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Moldova
- Norway
- Poland
- The Condition and Perspectives of Polish Political Science in the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
Summary
Summary: The condition of political science in the beginning of the 21st century in Poland is the consequence of a number of factors, the most significant of them being Poland's communist experience (1945−1989), the post-1989 economic and political transformation as well as the changes in the organization of higher education both in terms of teaching and research. This paper covers all of those factors but its main aim is to present the state of Polish political science between 2000 and 2012. The authors present curricular and institutional changes in higher education, the number of universities providing courses in the field of political science as well as the number of students and academic staff. The paper discusses the structural and curricular changes introduced in the period in question following the Bologna Accord and the provisions of the National Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.
Introduction
For any in-depth and structured reflection on the development of political science it is essential to start with the key questions about the subject being studied, methods and boundaries. Those elements have been discussed within our discipline now for decades and as such there is no need to reiterate those debates here. In this article we adopt the pluralistic vision of political science as a discipline sharing the object of research with other social sciences and humanities. Political science defined this way is enriched by philosophical reflection present in axiological considerations affecting the political sphere, and by historical reflection which looks at trends and development directions in the political sphere from a historical perspective, and by scientific reflection which focuses on drawing observation-based conclusions that can be used in explaining and predicting political phenomena. Such a vision of political science would also see it as a field concerned with looking for practical applications of theoretical statements in the field of politics, and as such – a basis for rational actions (Krauz-Mozer et al., 2011, p. 14). All of those angles complement each other and used jointly and developed in research they translate into the richness of political science.
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- Political Science in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century , pp. 357 - 382Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2015