Political Science in the Shadow of the State Research, Relevance, Deference

Understanding Scholarly Shifts – A Matter of Relevance

Rainer Eisfeld and Matthew Flinders

PART I – FOUNDATIONS AND CONCEPTS

Chapter 2:

Incentives for Impact: Relevance Regimes Through a Cross-National Perspective

Matthew Flinders, Marleen Brans and Justyna Bandola-Gill

Chapter 3:

Towards a Tyranny of State-Directed Relevance?   Co-option, Control and Research Funding

Rainer Eisfeld

PART II – COUNTRY CASE STUDIES

Chapter 4:

Research in a Racially Structured State: The Role of the U. S. National Science Foundation

Dianne Pinderhughes

Chapter 5:

Changing Politics of Research Funding in Australia

Kanishka Jayasuriya

Chapter 6:

Dividing Lines in a Firmly Established Discipline: French Political Science and Impacts of State-Directed Research Funding

Raul Magni-Berton and Pierre Squevin

Chapter 7:

Forces Shaping Political Science Research and Knowledge Transfer in the Netherlands

Barend van der Meulen, Valérie Pattyn & Arco Timmermans

Chapter 8:

Illiberalism Meets Neoliberalism: Hungary’s Government and the Social Sciences

Zsolt Boda and Zoltán Gábor Szúcs

Chapter 9:

Strategically Undermining the Role of Political Science: State-Directed Research Funding in the Visegrad States

Aneta Vilagi

Chapter 10:

Political Science or a Science for Politics: Internal and External Co-option in Belarus

Tatsiana Chulitskaya

Chapter 11:

Social Sciences as an Instrument of National Development: The Case of Qatar

Leslie A. Pal

PART III – ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 12: Relevance, Deference, and the Politicization of Research Funding

Matthew Flinders and Rainer Eisfeld

Rainer Eisfeld is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Osnabrück 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.