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
- Political Science in Slovakia: A Field Divided or champ doublé?
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
Political Science in Slovakia: A Field Divided or champ doublé?
from Slovakia
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
- Political Science in Slovakia: A Field Divided or champ doublé?
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Biographical notes about the authors
Summary
Summary: Inspired by the Bourdieu's concept of a field (champ), we argue that there are two parts of political science in Slovakia that exist side by side with clear differences across all the examined data. Three broad clusters of publicly available information analysed in this chapter deal with individual background of the full-time academic staff, domestic as well as international reputation, and overall compatibility of curricula with the world leading universities. They help us identify one part of the field that is oriented towards international environment with larger share of publications placed in foreign academic journals and publishing houses, and at least some of its academic staff educated in other than post-communist countries. This is further supplemented by a relative openness and some compatibility with curricula taught at the top universities abroad. The other part of political science in Slovakia is an opposite of that. Academicians are “inbreeded” within a domestic environment, research gets published in Slovak journals or by the home university press, and educational process is hidden from the world beyond the walls of the institution. Different practices sustain separation of these two largely unrelated environments to such an extent that it is often difficult to say whether one can still speak about a single divided field, or already about champ doublé.
Introduction
Political science in Slovakia seems to thrive at first sight and to be successful in achieving the status of a respected social science as common in many developed societies. The last twenty-five years of development led to a great increase of the number of departments offering university education in a discipline, which created a completely new pool of scientists, professionals, and experts untouched by the communist ideology. Political scientists appear in public and private media on a daily basis and regularly express their opinions on the most important issues concerning the society. Yet even if being a well-established and generally accepted field of study, from a closer perspective political science in Slovakia shows many signs that suggest internal division.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Political Science in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century , pp. 449 - 476Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2015