The study of the relationship between politics and law as a subject of the science of administration

Abstract

By abolishing the science of administration as a separate scientific discipline within the field of legal sciences, the legislator has undermined the legitimacy of the hitherto very rich research perspective on the various and heterogeneous conditions in which public administration functions. After the reform, everything that is not covered by the scope of administrative law was assigned to the newly created science of politics and administration. As a consequence of this division, there is a danger of the existence of 'undeveloped research areas', to which, in the author's opinion, the issue of the relationship between politics and law can be included. This is because, for lawyers, there is a temptation to overlook phenomena in public administration showing links with politics, which at the same time are devoid of direct references to administrative law, as these should be dealt with by researchers within the science of politics and administration. On the other hand, one should be aware that the analysis of research conducted so far in political science shows a notorious tendency to marginalise the legal threads that condition the functioning of public administration. This study is another voice in the discussion on the restoration of the science of administration as a separate scientific discipline.