Review article
POLITICAL ECONOMY – ECONOMY – POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dag Strpić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
From the 17th to 19th century, political economy transformed from a particular social/moral science to the synonym for a liberal version of the totality of politicocameral or “statal” sciences (sciences of common-wealth). At the turn of the 20th century, in establishing an autonomous economic science, and in the narrower profiling of political sciences, political economy began to be marginilised in economics (except in its totally ideologised “marxist-leninist” version which, after the initial Stalin's anathema, proclaimed a central position of political economy in economic sciences.) Later, in political science, political economy developed for itself a position of a particular scientific branch/subdiscipline and a teaching field for a group of disciplines which in a special way preserve links of political science with other social sciences and arts. Thus, the disciplinary structure of the contemporary political economy basically corresponds to the structure of other branches of political science and of political science as a whole. In departments of political science and international relations at world's universities, Political Economy naturally is the basic course, but the most frequent course is that of International/Global/World Political Economy. In research and scientific literature, Political Economy has developed in several special directions: 1. as one among several constitutive regional theories of political science; 2. as a complex theory of development and change, and of design of strategic scenarios of initiating, regulating and realising particular trends; 3. as an economic analysis of politics, political institutions and processes and, vice versa, as a political analysis of economic institutions and processes; 4. as a complex analysis of public policy and of harmonisation of its branches, especially in connection with the theory of economic policy and particular political economies of particular social sectors; 5. as an analysis of the relations between state and economy; 6. as an analysis of politico-economic history; 7. as a politico-economic analysis of society; 8. in recent times especially as the “global political economy”, because at the world level of analysis, other established and too disciplinary closed approaches often failed.
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24993
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Publication date:
10.3.2001.
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