Political science in parliaments. Case studies on selected Western parliaments after the Second World War

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Correction Statement

This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.

Notes

1 R. Adcock, M. Bevir and S.C. Stimson, Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880 (Princeton, 2007). About the differences in disciplines in both the US and Europe, see G. Capano and L. Verzichelli, ‘European Political Science: The Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Relevance of a Divided Discipline’, in G. Capano and L. Verzichelli (eds), The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe. From Myth to Action (Cham, 2023), pp. 1–35.

2 D. Bessner and N. Guilhot (eds), The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century (Oxford and New York, 2018).

3 M. Weber, ‘Die “Objektivität” sozialwissenschaftlicher und sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis’, in J. Winckelmann (ed.), Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre [1904] (Tübingen, 1973), p. 184.

4 Political science histories have been researched from different perspectives, including language. See S. Smith, ‘The Language of Political Science in Early Modern Europe’, Journal of the History of Ideas 80, (2019), pp. 203–26.

5 K. Asdal and B. Hobæk, ‘Assembling the Whale: Parliaments in the Politics of Nature’, Science as Culture 25, (2016), pp. 95–116; K. Asdal and B. Hobæk, ‘The Modified Issue: Turning Around Parliaments, Politics as Usual and How to Extend Issue-Politics with a Little Help from Max Weber’, Social Studies of Science 50, (2020), pp. 252–70.

6 K. Palonen, ‘Political Science as a Topic in Post-War German Bundestag Debates’, History of European Ideas 46, (2020), pp. 360–73.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Kari Palonen

Kari Palonen is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published extensively in English, German and Finnish on the concept of politics and its history, on the principles and practices of conceptual history, on the political thought of Max Weber and on the political theory, rhetoric and procedure of parliamentarism.

Anna Kronlund

Anna Kronlund, Dr., Docent in Political Science (University of Jyväskylä), is an acting university lecturer in political science at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr Kronlund's research interests include US politics, especially the US Congress, political debates, and concepts. More recently, she has been leading a research project that studies United Nations' legitimacy and transnational challenges. Her monograph US Congress' Powers Under Debate: Separation of Powers and Parliamentary Politics in Times of War and Crisis was published by Nomos in 2022.