System awansów naukowych w Polsce: ewolucja i aspekty instytucjonalne
The system of academic advancement in Poland: evolution and institutional aspects

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present, from a historical perspective, the evolution of the system of academic advancement in Poland, with particular emphasis on solutions from the period following the start of the political transformation. The author uses elements of the analysis and conceptual apparatus typical for institutional economics, both in the variant sometimes referred to as the old institutional economics, and in the so-called new institutional economics. The analysis of changes in the system of academic advancement in Poland in the period after independence was regained in 1918, and especially in the period after World War II, shows that the changes were clearly evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. This occurred with clear path dependence and the important role, next to formal institutions related to legislative changes, of informal institutions in the area of tradition, custom and discussion about the response to incentives.

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