Koncepcyjne i metodologiczne założenia badań nad administracją publiczną (na przykładzie analizy nad służbą cywilną)

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The article relates to the characterization of research methods of habilitation dissertation on “The conditions, standards and trends of the civil service in Poland with European background.” The research of conditions of the civil service, its standards and directions of modification has created a certain need to look at the presented subject based on different research approaches, and thus allowed to know its essence, a resource of concepts and categories in terms of policy (conceptual-descriptive function), as well as provided a information about its action (diagnostic function), development regularities and possible variants of changes (predictive function), the ways and means of implementation of ethical values (instrumental-technical function).The author describes the used working research methods: the traditional microsystem analysis ,behavioral and neo-institutional method, a method of in-depth interview, observation of phenomena occurring in the civil service. Used methods have helped to provide the background to rationalize the place and the position of the civil service in a democratic country and indicated what the civil service should be to meet the expectations of political and social life in the light of changing reality.