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.