Íslensk stjórnmálafræði – yfirlit um hálfrar aldar sögu

Abstract

In his article, Mr. Harðarson traces the beginning of teaching in the social sciences in the Social Studies Program at the University of Iceland from the 1970s onwards. He then traces how this co-teaching in political science and sociology developed in the 1970s and 1980s, becoming more meaningful and acquiring a clearer institutional framework, and during the reorganization of the structure of the University of Iceland in 2008, it became the university’s most populous department. Mr. Harðarson highlights how the three initial main goals of teaching political science – that the BA program meet international requirements, that research be carried out on the Icelandic government system, and that a connection be formed with the international academic community of political science – were fulfilled one after the other. In his article, Mr. Harðarson traces the main points that have been written about the development of Icelandic political science, using an overview from an article that Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson wrote in 1977 about ten projects and research areas that awaited Icelandic political scientists. Mr. Harðarson covers these areas one by one and gives an account of the research and writing on each of them separately, providing a comprehensive and general overview of the research and academic writing of political science.

Keywords

• rannsóknarstofnanir
• saga félagsvísinda á íslandi
• stjórnmálafræðirannsóknir
• íslelnsk hugtök