Reconceptualizing the perestroikans-quantitatives debates in contemporary political science

Abstract EN

Development of political science as a contemporary scientific discipline can be viewed through two basic trends, first, the behaviouralism trends (from the 1950s), second, the post-behaviouralism trends (from the 1970s).

Through both directions several sub-directions emerged as quantitative, qualitative, and rational choice orientations, Perhaps the enthusiasm for change in the field is nothing but a justification in the name of raising the shares of Scientific methods in order to obtain the necessary academic respect.

What gave the field this transformative formula in its methodological and thematic structure were those methodological debates, as they are arguments that accompanied the science on politics studies throughout its stages of development up to the current period in the first quarter of the 21 century which the perestroikan trend (from the 2000s) emerged as a trend trying to correct the mistakes committed in political science.