Dlaczego pytanie o granice politologii jest ważne?

Abstract

Why is the question about limits of political science important?

The text discusses the following issues: how limits of political science are defined, how their comprehension determines the strategies adopted by individual researchers and collective bodies representing the discipline, at what stages of the discipline development and at what critical moments in its development the question about the limits becomes particularly important. What determines the topicality of the question about the limits of the discipline is issues such as: the necessity to fully engage in international cooperation, in particular the European one; the need to establish proper relations with the political science sub‑disciplines which make attempts at becoming independent; the necessity to combine the discipline development with labour market needs. According to the Author, this requires that Polish political science should cross the limits of those areas which have not fallen into the domain of its broader interests to date: especially empirical and comparative research on political systems, economics of politics (political economics), historical sociology of politics.