Краят на ВАК: от политически към „академичен“ произвол?
The End of State Control: From Political to “Academic” Arbitrary Rule?

Summary/Abstract: The emphasis of this paper is placed on the issue of responsibility and hence, it is not intended to be a detailed overview and analysis of the debates on and the amendments in the “new” law on the Development of the Academic Staff of 2010, which replaced the Academic Degrees and Titles Act. Of major interest for this paper are two issues that contain key aspects of the reform: What happens with the academic staff when political control is lifted? What happens with the academic staff when the system in charge of its development becomes decentralized? My thesis is that political control in itself does not relieve scholars from any responsibility for their actions related to the “development of the academic staff”; yet, the existence of political control allows for the degradation of responsibility as a value. The abolition of political control in itself does not restore the value of responsibility; in the lack of non-academic control, the unrestored value of responsibility could lead to “academic” arbitrary rule.

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