Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities : : A Consolidated Discipline?
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021. ©2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
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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.