The major task of the Department of Scientific Research is to provide the European Commission the authorities of the member states with a scientific diagnosis on the direction of changes of the social and legal order and the state of social perception and expectations with regard to the fulfilment of the EU policies.
This task is to be carried out first by research programmes under the European Year of the Education for Democracy. The first of those are lexometric studies thanks to which the EU bodies and authorities of the member states will be obtaining – in annual reports – credible information cleared of infoxication and propaganda manipulation concerning the extent to which European legislatures fulfil the formation of the normative order securing the interests of democracy and citizens.
The studies carried out by means of lexometry are to be socialised by performing annual rankings of the compliance of the legislative policies realised by the legislatures of the member states with the policies executed by the bodies of the European Union.
Such rankings may build trust to the member states and to the policies of their authorities (or cause that trust to decline) both in the social and in the economical sphere, on the same principle how currently existing rankings concerning the credibility of states affect the decisions of investors in financial markets. What is more, the position of a given state in the rankings may stimulate specific action in the sphere of legislative policy in the same way as it happens with the currently existing rankings.
Making the results of the studies public is meant to enable a wide promotion of the activities of the EU bodies as meeting expectations of citizens of the union’s member states.
The second permanent research programme run by the department (and initiated under the Year of the Education for Democracy) is the aggregation and analysis of data on how the youngest groups of voters in All EU member states perceive the state of benefits or inconveniences resulting from the functioning of the EU, expectations with regard to systems changes and the priorities of the EU policies. This programme is to be executed by means of tools derived from political sociology and social psychology.
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The main theme of Prof. dr hab. Paweł Chmielnicki’s work is the material sources of law and the new institutional economics. In 2009 we designed a method of long-term tendencies occurring in the legislative process relating to the socioeconomic reasons for the creation of law, called lexometry. He has been carrying out studies devoted to the said theme for more than 15 years continuously and they have a unique character on the global scale. The results of this research have been discussed, inter alia, in the books: Paweł Chmielnicki, Adam Sulikowski (Eds.), “New Perspectives on Legislation. A Comaparative Approach”, Peter Lang Berlin 2020; Paweł Chmielnicki “Tworzenie instytucji gospodarki a ustawodawstwo polskie” Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2015; Paweł Chmielnicki (Ed.), “Pochodzenie, tworzenie i efektywność prawa”, Ed.. 1, LexisNexis Warszawa 2014; Paweł Chmielnicki (Ed.), Anna Dybała, Michał Stachura “Reguły działania człowieka gospodarującego w społeczeństwie jako źródło norm prawnych”, LexisNexis Warszawa 2010. In 2007 he came up with the initiative of establishing a national law annual “Przegląd Prawa Publicznego”, whose editor-in-chief he has remained till date.. In 2012 he set up national scientific association “Stowarzyszenie Badań nad Źródłami i Funkcjami Prawa”, currently gathering 150 members – scientific employees working in dozen or so academic establishments.
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