Exiting Lepušićeva: Discussion

• Main Author: Danijela Dolenec
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 2013-01-01
• Series: Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva
• Subjects: comparative politics; political science; status and development of the discipline
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/181821

In the article “Exiting Lepušićeva?” Kasapović engages once again with the very important issue of critical evaluation of the development of political science in Croatia, with a particular focus on the status of comparative politics within the discipline. The author takes an outside perspective in the approach to the analysis of the reasons why Croatia can rarely be found in international comparative studies, and inquires into the reasons why political scientists abroad, involved in large-scale international research programs, rarely include Croatia as one of their case studies? In addition to Kasapović’s argument, I begin by summing up the main problems, and afterwards I argue that the development of empirical political science in Croatia takes place in the absence of a comprehensive Science and research policy on the national level, but also in the context of insufficient concern of the scientists themselves for the conditions of knowledge production and the mechanisms of reproduction of the discipline.