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from Croatia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
Summary: The development of the Croatian political science after 2000 was significantly determined by the old “intellectual baggage” inherited from almost four decades of its institutional development in the communist Croatia and Yugoslavia as well as by a difficult transition period of the 1990s in which the discipline had to be refounded and the Faculty of Political Science, as the only academic institution at which political science can be studied in Croatia, radically reorganised. The first decade of the new century was marked by constituting Croatian and comparative politics, public policies and public administration as special subfields as well as by changes in political theory and international relations as more established subfields. The fundamental weakness of the Croatian political science is its weak internationalisation which is manifested in weak publishing of scientific works in acknowledged international journals, insufficient involvement in international research projects and relatively low international teaching staff and student mobility. Good sides of the development are stronger social establishing of the scientific discipline and profession and their exceptionally high social visibility which influences the increase of reputation and of the demand for the study of political science on the market.
Development of political science until 21st century: A short introduction
The development of political science in North America and West Europe was accompanied by critical discussions and reflections on fundamental epistemological, theoretical and methodological issues of the discipline. As a result, a special subfield emerged which deals with the history of the discipline and comprises single-country studies and cross-national comparative studies. Up to the end of the 20th century both types of studies were emerging primarily in western democratic states where political science was most developed – whereby it is asserted by many that it really existed only in these countries (Easton et al., 1990, p. 4), though it was by no means equally developed in all western countries (Mény, 2010) and where there were subject and contextual prerequisites for its critical discussion.
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