Possibilities and Threats Facing Emerging and Marginalised Political Science Groups

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The main tasks of WG13 were (1) to contribute, in the early phase of the project, to the identification of political scientists across Europe-a tentative 'census' subsequently built on by national teams in 2017-2018, (2) to contribute to the general online survey jointly edited by WG3 and WG4, distributed among European political scientists in 2018-2019 and (3) to provide updated information about the situation of the profession on the continent, in particular by generating reports (mostly of a qualitative nature) based on a questionnaire distributed among the Action's participants (2018-2019). In regard to the first point, Action participants quickly realised just how challenging a comparative study of the state of the discipline in Europe was. Despite the widely acknowledged process of continental integration driven by the European Union (EU), the academic landscape has been, and still is, characterised by a great variety of traditions, institutions and resources-and not simply due to the fact that not all European states are EU member states. Understanding the category 'political science' means dealing with a discipline which has been variously labelled (political science or political sciences, political science or political studies and political science or 'politology') and which has variable relationships with a variety of subfields, each independent to a lesser or greater degree (international relations, public policy, public administration, political economy, political sociology, research methods and political theory are some of the best examples of such)