Political science in exceptional times: Finnish scholars responding to three crises of the 2010s
| Autor: | Petri Koikkalainen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Government
030503 health policy & services 05 social sciences Public debate Comparative politics Context (language use) 0506 political science 03 medical and health sciences Politics Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Political philosophy Social science 0305 other medical science Annexation Science journalism |
| Zdroj: | European Political Science. 21:75-94 |
| ISSN: | 1682-0983 1680-4333 |
| Popis: | This article focuses on Finnish political scientists’ contributions to the public debate at a time when the relationship between academia and the government was tenser than usual. More specifically, it addresses the public roles and relevance of political scientists during three salient political crises of the 2010s: the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the war in Donbass, the so-called European migrant crisis beginning in 2015, and the failure of major Finnish governance reform in 2019. I examine scholars’ interventions into them in a corpus of eighty articles collected from the online journal Politiikasta and use qualitative content analysis to study the polarisation of their views and the style of interventions, including scholars’ relationship with the government. I discuss the visibility and impact of political science in the context of gender and seniority of researchers, the presence of political science in the Finnish media, in general, and against other social-scientific disciplines, and with the other countries studied in this Special Issue. |
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