Political science in the shadow of the state : research, relevance, deference / Rainer Eisfeld, Matthew Flinders, editors.
Eisfeld, Rainer, editor.; Flinders, Matthew V., editor.
2021
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Title
Political science in the shadow of the state : research, relevance, deference / Rainer Eisfeld, Matthew Flinders, editors.
ISBN
9783030759186 (eBook)
3030759180 (eBook)
9783030759179
3030759172
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75918-6
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 334 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-75918-6 doi
Call Number
LC171
Dewey Decimal Classification
379
Summary
"What is the link between scholarship and democracy? What role do academics play in sustaining democratic values? Why should concerns about the hollowing-out of democracy include a focus on the changing governance of higher education? Offering the first comparative analysis of how both democratic and autocratic politicians are seeking to control the research funding landscape, this book reveals a very worrying shift in the relationships between the state and universities: With higher education politically redefined as a mere tool of economic strategy, the space for academic autonomy, intellectual independence and critical thinking is being closed down. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about democratic governance and the future of higher education."--ProQuest website.
This compelling volume literally spans the globe, from North America to Europe and on to the Middle East, as it apprehends how agenda-setting and research support by public authorities can redirect and limit the contours and content of political science. Sharply argued, the essays raise many points of concern. Ira I. Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, USA Superbly evocativeA distinguished dissection of a prevalent pattern in contemporary state-scholar relationships, revealed as disquieting in terms of its costs to intellectual freedom and social capital. Also a compassionate appeal in favor of expanding political scientists topic-driven international cooperation. Irmina Matonyte, former President, Lithuanian Political Science Association, Military Academy of Lithuania (Vilnius) Political science should be relevant, but this book makes a convincing argument that the state should not be left to define what is relevant. A discipline focused on power and how to control it would do well to reflect and act on the warnings embodied in this work. Gerry Stoker, Professor of Governance, University of Southampton, UK What is the link between scholarship and democracy? What role do academics play in sustaining democratic values? Why should concerns about the hollowing-out of democracy include a focus on the changing governance of higher education? Offering the first comparative analysis of how both democratic and autocratic politicians are seeking to control the research funding landscape, this book reveals a very worrying shift in the relationships between the state and universities: With higher education politically redefined as a mere tool of economic strategy, the space for academic autonomy, intellectual independence and critical thinking is being closed down. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about democratic governance and the future of higher education. Rainer Eisfeld is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Osnabruck University, Germany, and also taught at UCLA as a Visiting Professor. Matthew Flinders is Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre and Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
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Understanding scholarly shifts : a matter of relevance / Matthew Flinders and Rainer Eisfeld
Foundations and concepts. A Starting Point-Two Types of Research Relevance
Incentives for impact : relevance regimes through a cross-national perspective / Justyna Bandola-Gill, Matthew Flinders, and Marleen Brans
Towards a tyranny of politically selected relevance? : co-option through state-directed research funding / Rainer Eisfeld
Country case studies. Research in a racially structured state : the role of the US National Science Foundation / Dianne M. Pinderhughes and Andrea Peña-Vasquez
Australia's politics of research funding : depoliticization and the crisis of the regulatory state / Kanishka Jayasuriya and Greg McCarthy
The unplanned and underfunded co-option of political science in France / Raul Magni-Berton and Pierre Squevin
Political and social forces shaping political science research and knowledge transfer in the Netherlands / Arco Timmermans, Valérie Pattyn, and Barend van der Meulen
When illiberalism meets neoliberalism : state and the social sciences in present Hungary / Zsolt Boda and Zoltán Gabor Szúcs
Undermining the role of political science : state-directed research funding in the Visegrad states / Aneta Világi
Political science or science in the service of politics : internal and external co-option in Belarus / Tatsiana Chulitskaya
Social sciences as an instrument of nationa development? : the case of Qatar / Leslie A. Pal
Analysis and implications. From deference and the politicization of research funding to a new politics of political science / Rainer Eisfeld and Matthew Flinders
Correction to: From deference and the politicization of research funding to a new politics of political science / Rainer Eisfeld and Matthew Flinders.

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