Contemporary Challenges of Funding in Political Science

This panel explores the current challenges that political science has in attracting and maintaining funding that can support the development and the consolidation of the discipline. It welcomes especially papers on the place of political science in the structure of national funding for scientific research; the availability, reliability and predictability of funding for political science departments and research institutes; the accessibility of funding for individual and team research in political science at different level of experience; and the factors that influence the size and predictability of funding in the domain. The papers can be regional, national, subnational or topic case studies, comparative analyses or methodological proposals. Ultimately, this panel aims to answer the following main questions: is political science research underfunded and if yes by how much? how well developed is the infrastructure of political science as a discipline in universities and which types of resources would it need to be more developed? which are the world regions that are in most need of funding in this field? which specific areas of political research are the most challenged financially? how accessible, reliable and predictable is public funding for the discipline? which are the dynamics of global, regional, national and subnational private funding that affect the development of the discipline?