Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-4
POLAND
Biuro Studiow i Ekspertyz Kancelarii Sejmu
ul. Zagorna 3 00-441 Warszawa
Tel.: +4822-694 1727
Fax: +4822694 1865
E-mail: wstas@sejm.gov.pl
Internet: http://biurose.sejm.gov.pl/eng/index.htm
Management: Wieslaw Staskiewicz (wstas@sejm.gov.pl)
Year of foundation: 1990
Staff: 61 staff member
Supporting institution: Sejm of Poland
Departments/research groups/centres/working groups:
* European integration group
* Budget analyses division
* Economic and social analyses division
* Legal opinions division
* Information division
Main fields: The Bureau renders services to fullfil needs of
deputies and organs of the Sejm ranging from provision of concise basic
information and legal consultations to preparation of written experts' opinions
and reports requiring complex and time-consuming studies. The Bureau gives
opinions on draft legislation being under the Sejm consideration with special
regard to their expected legal, social, economic and ecological consequences as
well as burden they may impose on the State Budget and it prepares opinions
about guidelines of the Budget.
Research:
* interpretation, contents and implementation of legal acts - mainly in the
field of constitutional, administrative, civil, economy, labour and criminal
law;
* economic policy, agriculture, food industry, environmental protection,
international economic cooperation, regional and crossborder cooperation;
* political systems of particular states, legal regulations and institutional
solutions, which are legally binding in these states,
* European integration, international relations, Poland's foreign and defence
policies;
* work of ministries and other state institutions as well as non-governmental
organizations;
* taxation issues, functioning of certain financial institutions or financial
mechanisms that exist in other countries;
* foreign general and substantial solutions regarding education, health care,
social security, housing policy,
* youths problems, gender issues, social pathology.
Publications/ papers:
* Information - brief topical information concerning selected problems
of particular fields being under the Sejm consideration;
* Reports - own publications resulting from Bureau research;
* Materials and Documentations - collection of documents and press
clippings, in original language or translated, dedicated to specific matters
considered by the Sejm;
* Experts' Opinions - opinions prepared by outside experts on request
of the Bureau;
Series:"Legal Experts' Opinions"; "Legal Acts
Translations"; "Conferences and Seminars"
Events: The Bureau of Research also organizes seminars and conferences
connected with the Sejm proceedings (among others on: state budget drafting,
banking system in Poland and Europe, parliamentary rules and procedures, status
of a deputy, association agreement between Poland and European Communities,
housing policy, privatisation process, environmental education, lobbying, women
in public life)
Place of publication: Cracow
Publication dates: quarterly since 1995
Edited by:
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Management and Communication, Institute
of Public Affairs, International Centre for Democratic Professional Development
ul. Grodzka 26, II p 31-044 Krakow
Tel.: +48-12-422 64 53
Fax: +48-12-422 58 92
E-mail: upniemcz@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Internet: http://www-isp.miks.uj.edu.pl/Studia_
Iagellonica_Humani_Cultus_Progressus_ang.html
Editor- in-chief: Adam Niemczyński
Subject area: Developmental Psychology
The journal is published in English and Polish (with extensive English
summaries).
Contents of Vol. 4, (1998) No. 1 as an example:
Topic: Cultural Psychology: Ideas and Scholars
* Zukow-Goldring, P.: Perceiving Eye-to-Eye: When Vygotsky Meets
Gibson and Garfinkel
* Georgfiou, S.: Fear of War and Child Development
* Dryll, E.; Cierpka, A.: Studying Family Ethos by Analysis of
Narration
* Interview: Mey, G.; Mruck, K.: A Traveller Through Psychology. An
Interview with Jaan Valsiner
* Bernoussi, M.: Cognitive Addition: An External Validation of
Individual Differences
* Olejnik, M.; Niemczyński, A.: Cognitive Development Across
Adulthood: From Sheer Competence to Biographical Meaningfulness
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