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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilonszki, Gabriella.
Other Authors: Roux, Christophe.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.

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