About the Department of Public Administration

The Department of Public Administration is a research and didactic unit of the Collegium of Socio-Economics, established in 1999. Its interdisciplinary character deserves special attention, as it brings together economists, lawyers and political scientists. This has a significant impact on both the research and teaching activities of the Department.

The employees research interests focus on studies and analyses of the problems of the position, structure, functions and modernisation of public administration institutions and their economic, social, political and international environment. Comparative studies are also undertaken in the formulation and conduct of regional and local development policy by local government administration institutions. At the same time, individual employees undertake research topics that are homogeneous from the point of view of their academic discipline - economics, international economic relations, law (constitutional, administrative and civil), contemporary system studies and political science.

The academic employees of the Department are experienced and highly rated by students as teachers and supervisors of bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses. During the period of the Department's existence, its employees have promoted several hundred bachelor's and master's theses at all types of studies, as well as more than 20 doctoral dissertations.

An important part of the scientific and research activity is the international activity of the Department's employees, expressed in cooperation with numerous research centres abroad, as well as annual foreign seminars and meetings of the Department's employees with representatives of cooperating units (Barcelona, Bratislava, Tatranská Lomnica, Vienna, Ramsau, Oslo).
The Department's employees are open to projects and collaboration proposals from students, their organisations and employees from other research and teaching units of the Collegium and the Warsaw School of Economics.
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