Aktualny stan i przyszłość nauki o polityce w Polsce w opiniach członkiń i członków społeczności politologicznej
The current state and the future of political science in Poland in the opinions of the members of political science community

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of pilot study, which aim was to deter-mine how polish political science scholars perceive their scientific discipline andits future, and what are their opinions on desirable directions of changes withinpolitical science. The questions used in the survey concerned the following issues,important in the context of the title matter: the attitude of Polish political scientiststowards their scientific discipline, and relating to its current state; the perceptionof problems and challenges the discipline is facing; the issues relating to the or-ganization of the discipline and its place in the system of science and the systemof scientific disciplines; the aims and methods of conducting political research;the aims of teaching of political science; pro-integrative actions of the politicalscience community. For the purposes of the study the following hypotheses wereformulated: H1: Polish political science community is aware of the problems andchallenges their discipline is facing; H2: the perception of the problems and chal-lenges Polish political science is facing actually corresponds with the objectivecurrent conditions of the discipline; H3: political science community knows what should be done to effectively address certain problems and challenges to ensurethe discipline improvement of its state and further development – and it is ableto formulate potential solutions relating to this matter. The data collected withthe survey allowed to reconstruct the image of beliefs concerning the disciplineof political science and administration, its current state and future development,as well as – as it had been assumed – it provided the basis for further in-depthmeta-scientific research.

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