Developmental Political Science and Policies of Development: Political and Developmental Harmonisation and Cyclical Synergy of Public Policies
Within the scholarly and social marginalisation of social sciences, political science is in the forefront of taking an ever more secondary role. Even though it has got some distinct structural advantages for successful research on not only political, but also existential social problems, it has its...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva |
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| Online Access: | http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/55979 |
| Summary: | Within the scholarly and social marginalisation of social sciences, political science is in the forefront of taking an ever more secondary role. Even though it has got some distinct structural advantages for successful research on not only political, but also existential
social problems, it has itself showed a tendency toward more marginal social issues and an increased limitation of its competences. This can be changed even in the current world crisis, but only if conventional research strategies of political scientists change,
too. An orientation toward problem solving, especially toward solving major problems, will largely improve public policies as policies of development, but only if political science as a whole becomes integrated, more well-founded, dinamically and developmentally oriented and more networked into the broader scientific system. The world crisis has got deeply segmented causes, not only financial-economic, but also constitutive, cyclical-political,political-economic and public-policy causes. This is suggested by the political cycle theory. The synergy of public policies which has directly caused the crisis can also break it, but only if the U.S. government and the contemporary world system remodernise, in addition
to the development of meritocratically separate, if democratically controlled, public-policy government as the fifth (or seventh) branch of government in the separation of powers. |
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| ISSN: | 1845-6707 1847-5299 |