Review article

STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Dag Strpić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia decided on a new Rule Book of Definition of Scientific Areas. By the Book, Politology is a scientific field in the area of social sciences. The field is divided in 3 branches: 1. Politology, 2. Theory and History of Politics, 3. Political Philosophy. The author of this article shows by documents how the Political science is quite differently structured by IPSA and APSA, and describes 120 years of dominantly American development of Political science and of professions of political scientists which brought out a recent new world standard with around 100 subdisciplines and areas of expertise which are structured in 8 fundamental disciplines: 1. Political Institutions, 2. Political Behaviour, 3. Comparative Politics, 4. International Relations, 5. Political Theory, 6. Public Policy and Public Administration/ /Management, 7. Political Economy, 8. Political Methodology. The author points out that a voluntaristic intervention in the definition of scientific areas could mean an attack on development of science, research organisation, renewal of teaching staff on University, and on academic education of political scientists, as well as on internationally comparable competence of Croatian experts, and Croatian democratic political thought and political culture in general.

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Hrčak ID:

105755

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105755

Publication date:

18.6.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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