Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Political Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Moldova
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Consolidation, Crisis and Prospects for Political Science in Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
Consolidation, Crisis and Prospects for Political Science in Spain
from Spain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Political Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Moldova
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Consolidation, Crisis and Prospects for Political Science in Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
Summary
Summary: This article analyses the consolidation, crisis and prospects for Political Science in Spain. It begins with the historical context: The discipline of Political Science in Spain in the XXth century. It then unfolds the main methodological perspectives pursued by political scientists. The article reviews the estimated number of higher education institutions where political science is taught and research is conducted, including figures for Spanish universities offering degrees of political science. The position of political science in the higher education structures is also outlined, as well as forms of political science education. The number of students in political science is also provided. Recent changes in political science education are addressed together with the dominant research interests, methodological approaches and research paradigms. The article presents number of researchers and teaching personnel in political science in Spain, and finally the conclusions, where restrictions on political science development, challenges and future prospects are outlined.
The historical and institutional context in which political science operates in Spain is grounded in the institutionalization undergone during the 1980s in university departments along the country. The Madrid-based University of Complutense – with a degree in Political Science from 1944 − was joined by newly created departments of political science where political scientists were hired at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UNED, and Universidad de Granada. This moment, a critical juncture for the discipline, broke from the previous concentration of studies in Madrid. The democratic transition from the 1980s marked a new turning point. Political science proceeded to grow rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, but this growth has been limited, and has faced a number of particular challenges.
Today, change comes from three directions: the process of adaptation to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA); the necessity to apply for research funds in a networked manner − jointly with foreign universities and firms under the European Union framework; and the general impact of the austerity measures at the national level. Austerity measures come hand in hand with a deep economic crisis with strong impact on society from 2009, together with a political crisis.
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- Political Science in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century , pp. 491 - 510Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2015