ON BEING UNCONVENTIONAL: THE POLITICS BEHIND THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS
ON BEING UNCONVENTIONAL: THE POLITICS BEHIND THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: This research note focuses on the initial quest to define political science in Romania.The institutionalization of the science of politics is deeply embedded and conditioned bythe transition process and the vagaries of Romanian democratization. At the same time, political science as a domain is primarily defined, in a neo-Weberian note, as distinctivelyrequiring both normative foundations different from other disciplines and processes ofprofessionalization led by political scientists. The analysis focuses on the writings ofDaniel Barbu to outline the importance of the politics behind the science of politics andits fragmentary consolidation in the Romanian context. It argues that the initialfoundations of political science as a domain continue to haunt more recent debates andvulnerabilities of the study of politics in the Romanian epistemic communities.

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