NAUKI O POLITYCE PUBLICZNEJ - CZTERY LATA ROZWOJU W SYMBIOZIE Z POLITOLOGIĄ.

Public policy - four years of development in symbiosis with political science The discipline “public policy” has emerged in the world from political science and some other areas and disciplines, with which it is affiliated. Since 2011 this discipline has gained in Poland its own identity and individuality in the area of social sciences. Article gives an overview over initiatives undertaken in recent years by interested scientific institutions and leading research teams in the framework of a new discipline. In particular, major initiatives in favour of the development of public policy were noted. Article supports the thesis about the fundamental importance of symbiosis between public policy and political science in the conditions of their separate existence in the structure of science. It constitutes one of the key qualitative determinants of the development of public policy as an academic discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]