Political Science in the Shadow of the State - Research, Relevance, Deference
Political Science in the Shadow of the State - Research, Relevance, Deference
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国家阴影下的政治学——研究、相关性、尊重
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-75918-6_12
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2021
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Eisfeld R
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Eisfeld R
When we started to envisage the present project by building an international team of authors and drafting our introductory texts, little did we foresee the extent to which a volume on university research and authority over academic knowledge production would evolve into a study of democratic erosion in the early twenty-first century. Under the guise of modernization and the vaunted promotion of efficiency, the artful hand of the state has grasped for the governance of publicly funded research agendas, the lifeblood of universities and in so doing has increasingly restricted or redefined the scope of intellectual autonomy. Intellectual freedom and the capacity without restraint (except the constraints of logic and falsification) in the sphere of ideas and through this to “speak truth unto power” is not just the lifeblood of universities, but also of democracies. The paradox we have attempted to bring to the fore is therefore the manner in which neoliberalism has furtheredilliberalism. The result is a dangerous fraying at the borderline between democracy and authoritarianism.