"[...]they were deformed both in terms of staff and academic independence [...]." A study in the history of transformation of the Academy of Sciences
Abstract
This paper tackles the transformation of the CSAS on the specific example of the Forecasting Institute of the CSAS. It follows the position of the institute from its vantage point befor November 1989 until its final dissolvment at the first General Assembyl of the CAS in 1993, including the general context of the whole CSAS.
It deals with (negotiation) strategies of the management of the institute and its new scientific board not only with the leadership of the Academy. They tried to secure the legitimacy of their existence which was endangered quite early.
Using especially new institutionalism, the author analyses an attempt to adapt to the new conditions which the Forecasting Institute undertook together with the Economic and the Social-Economic Institute of the CSAS and which was refused by the management of the CSAS in the end.