Consultability in designing higher education reforms in Poland – the case of the Law 2.0

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to outline the circumstances of the development of the socalled Law 2.0 in the years 2015–2017, which may be regarded as a case study showing interesting processes at the stages of preliminary consulting of the then new law concerning science and higher education. The analysis included in the paper focuses on the pre-legislative phases, i.e. the conceptual phase connected with the initiation of the changes and the consulting stage when the draft was being prepared. The paper is an attempt to verify the claim that the Law 2.0 decision-makers complied with the requirements of consultability perceived as an ability to carry out social consultations in accordance with the rules and principles recommended in theory and practice.