Politologia – między akademickością, użytkowością i medialnością
Political Science – Between the Scientific Standards, Practical Use and Media Show

Summary/Abstract: As regards the functioning of the political science in Poland there is a strong tension growing between requirements of the scientific nature, the practical attitude and programming and convenience of media in the process of popularization of achievements and analytical competence of political scientists. The field’s experts cannot cope with this properly. The political science is able to keep its scientific nature provided that its cognitive purposes remain autotelic, although it does not rule out practical usage of the knowledge gained through the scientific process. In practice however narrowly utilitarian, vulgar-pragmatic ideas of benefits from the political science are dominating. The effect of this is the reduction in cognitive ambitions of political scientists as a result of imposing them by politicians and clerks, temporary horizons and banal level of research, repeating ideological-propaganda pseudoaxioms, the disappearance of critical reflection over the deeper content of the political game. Presentation of achievements and competence of political scientists in the media brings barren attempts at commenting current political affairs. Paradoxically, using the potential of the political science both through the class of the ruling, as well as by any other forces of the political Establishment is inversely proportional to social needs and to the available offer of political scientists.

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