Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities : : A Consolidated Discipline?

• Author: Ilonszki, Gabriella.
• TeilnehmendeR: Roux, Christophe.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)

Table of Contents

Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Then and Now of Political Science Institutionalisation in Europe-A Research Agenda and Its Endeavour -- 1 ProSEPS and the Working Group on the State of Political Science in Europe -- 2 Understanding the Institutionalisation of Political Science in Europe's 'Periphery' -- 3 Plan of the Book -- References -- CHAPTER 2: The Institutionalisation of Political Science in ECE: The Grounding of Theory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Approaching the Institutionalisation Concept -- 2.1 The Dilemma: Process and Property -- 2.2 The Context: Structures, Norms and Agents -- 3 Institutionalisation-Properties, Indicators and Measures -- 3.1 Stability -- 3.2 Identity -- 3.3 Autonomy -- 3.4 Reproduction -- 3.5 Legitimacy -- 4 Theory and the Selected Country Cases -- References -- CHAPTER 3: From Scientific Communism to Political Science: The Development of the Profession in Selected Former Soviet European States -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Soviet Period: The Ideological and Intellectual Trajectories of Political Science -- 3 The Organizational Units of PS as an Academic Discipline -- 4 Political Science: An Independent Profession or Not? -- 5 Measuring the Autonomy of Political Science -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 4: The Institutionalisation of Political Science in Post-Yugoslav States: Continuities and New Beginnings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Foundation and Development of Political Science During the Communist Yugoslav Period, 1948-1990 -- 2.1 Conception of Political Science -- 2.2 The Building of the Discipline -- 3 The Institutionalisation of Political Science During the 1990-2020 Period: The Shift Towards Greater Divergence -- 3.1 Stability -- Institutions and Students.

Structural Reforms -- 3.2 Autonomy -- Hiring and Promotion -- New Subfields -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Other References -- CHAPTER 5: Political Science in Central European Democracies Under Pressure -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Context of the Institutionalisation of Political Science in CEE -- 3 The Stability of Political Science in CEE: Virtually No Change or Weak Resilience? -- 3.1 Higher Educational Institutions in the Field of Political Science: A Review of Institutional Trends Over Time -- 3.2 Students of Political Science: From an Explosion in Numbers to Their Recent Decline -- 4 Political Science: A Discipline Under Pressure? -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- CHAPTER 6: The Institutionalization of Political Science in Small States: A Comparative Analysis of Estonia, Iceland, Malta, and Slovenia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Political Science and Higher Education in Relation to Size -- 3 Key Aspects of the Institutionalization of Political Science in Small States: Stability and Internationalization -- 4 Country Profiles -- 5 Analysis -- 5.1 Stability -- 5.2 Internationalization -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Bumpy Road to Relevance: Croatia, Hungary and Lithuania in Perspective -- 1 Introduction: Our Questions and Cases -- 2 Variations: West and East -- 2.1 Seeking Identities -- 2.2 Legitimacy in Question -- 3 Relevance: Concepts, Evidence and Attitudes -- 3.1 Knowledge Provision -- 3.2 Publication Performance -- 3.3 Active Social Presence -- 3.4 Practical Impact -- 4 Towards Relevance? -- References -- CHAPTER 8: The Adaptation of New Countries to Existing (Old) Institutional Frameworks -- 1 In Search of European Political Science -- 2 The Institutionalisation of Political Science in Western Europe: The Role of International Political Science Organisations.

3 Indicators of the State of Political Science in Europe -- 4 The State of Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe -- 5 The Fragmented Field as an Obstacle to the Adaptation of New Countries to the Existing (Old) Institutional Frameworks -- 6 Is it Possible to Identify a Common Interest of European Political Science? -- References -- Websites -- CHAPTER 9: Conclusion: A Discipline Viewed from the Fringes-Opportunities Taken and the Risk of Deinstitutionalisation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Political Science's Institutionalisation -- 2.1 Political Science as a Specific Field -- 2.2 Institutionalisation as a Specific Challenge for Political Science -- 3 Political Science on the European Fringes: Seizing Opportunities -- 4 Political Science from the 'Great Recession' to Democratic Alteration: The Perils of Deinstitutionalisation -- 4.1 Grasping Deinstitutionalisation -- 4.2 Functional Pressures: The Lack of Financial Resources -- 4.3 Policy and Political Pressures: Why Political Science? -- 5 Conclusion -- References.