Studia politologiczne w Polsce

The aim of the paper is to present and analyze the development of university po-litical studies in Poland with a special focus on the period of the III Republic. A histori-cal overview of the tradition of political science in Poland and in the Polish lands in the period of partitions, starting from the XV century constitutes an introduction to the topic. The significance of Jagiellonian University, Vilnius Academy, Lvov Jesuit Acad-emy, The Knights Academy, universities in Cracow, Vilnius, Lvov, Warsaw, the Warsaw School of Political Sciences and others is pointed out. The beginnings of the formation of political science in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland since the half of the 1960s, including the contribution of the Polish Society of Political Sciences to the matter and the pioneers of the Polish political science is presented. The main body of the paper is constituted by the presentation of the institutional development of chairs, institutes and faculties of political (or social) sciences at the state schools of further education (currently, 14 university schools and 5 other state schools). It includes numerous tables showing an increase in the number of students and teaching staff in political science until the academic year of 2002/2003. In a synthetic manner, a dynamic, albeit not devoid of shortcomings, development of university studies in political science at public schools of further education (currently, 34 schools) is shown. The paper is concluded with an overview of scientific journals dedicated to political science which are published both by the state and public schools.