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

Intro.
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.