Odvojeni stolovi: škole i sekte u političkoj znanosti
Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science

Summary/Abstract: Over the past few decades the stale of the art in political science, after a relatively homogeneous historical development, has been characterized by the polarization and opposition of different theoretical trends, schools and sects. This polarization can he illustrated along two dimensions: the ideological and the methodological one. Along the ideological dimension the extremes are the left and the right, while along the methodological dimension the two poles are represented by the advocates of hard and soft methods. Nevertheless, the majority of political scientists take a central position between these extremes avoiding ideological bias and methodological exclusivity. It is just this central position that should exert a stronger influence on the atmosphere within, and the development of political science since the interpretations about the state of the art in this discipline provided by the extreme schools of thought have neither professional nor scientific legitimacy.

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