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In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 239-248
ISSN: 1469-9931
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In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 239-248
ISSN: 1469-9931
In: The political quarterly, Band 83, Heft 4, S. 677-684
ISSN: 1467-923X
The defence of political science rests on a starting proposition that practitioners of political science need to embrace relevance rather than fear. Defending the role of politics in resolving societal dilemmas is in part a responsibility of those who study it and the challenge is significant given evidence of disenchantment with the political process in many established and mew democracies. Political science needs to offer not only an understanding of politics that is theoretical, sophisticated and empirically rigorous but also an approach that is not just problem‐focused but solution‐seeking. Defending political science means defending politics and taking on the challenge of improving its practice.
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 577-595
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 239-265
ISSN: 1467-9248
'Political science' is a 'vanguard' field concerned with advancing generic knowledge of political processes, while a wider 'political scholarship' utilising eclectic approaches has more modest or varied ambitions. Political science nonetheless necessarily depends upon and is epistemologically comparable with political scholarship. I deploy Boyer's distinctions between discovery, integration, application and renewing the profession to show that these connections are close woven. Two sets of key challenges need to be tackled if contemporary political science is to develop positively. The first is to ditch the current unworkable and restrictive comparative politics approach, in favour of a genuinely global analysis framework. Instead of obsessively looking at data on nation states, we need to seek data completeness on the whole (multi-level) world we have. A second cluster of challenges involves looking far more deeply into political phenomena; reaping the benefits of 'digital-era' developments; moving from sample methods to online census methods in organisational analysis; analysing massive transactional databases and real-time political processes (again, instead of depending on surveys); and devising new forms of 'instrumentation', informed by post-rational choice theoretical perspectives.
In: Studia krytyczne: Critical studies, Heft 2, S. 42-61
ISSN: 2450-9078
The article shows the weakness of mainstream Polish political science. Its main weakness, according to the author, is omitting the industrial and corporate power conflict among the factors determining the contemporary politics. As a result, the relations between political science and political economy have become weak. Its place as a source of inspiration for political scientists has been taken by social philosophy. It seeks the various non-economic sources of politics. The postulated critical political science puts in the spotlight the main processes of the global capitalist economy located in a phase of stagnation and closing in on the natural limits of its duration. In particular, closer attention should be focused on tracking a new, already the fifth configuration of the market society. It will be the several partial processes weave; the recovery process of autonomy by the state to corporations and the financial sector (deglobalisation); the process of recovering control of the state by the old and new social movements (democracy participatory), and the process of transformation of the energy economy, coupled with the process of changing lifestyles: from consumerism to paideia as a human community responsive to its activity on the development, openness and creativity in shaping new rules for civilization.
In: New political science: a journal of politics & culture, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 239-249
ISSN: 0739-3148
In: New political science: a journal of politics & culture, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 359-372
ISSN: 0739-3148
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 718-739
ISSN: 1467-9248
In: Political studies, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 718
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Political studies, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 239-266
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 243-245
ISSN: 1930-5478
In: Philippine political science journal, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 87-87
ISSN: 2165-025X