This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European
political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data as well as
offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate
phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine we need to pay
attention to the factors that are affecting not only the 'objects' of Political Science as a
discipline but also its interactions with the world around it. First this book asks to what
extent the work of European political scientists is impacted by the current change. Second
their attitudes and predisposition about the future goals of the discipline are analysed. In
the final chapter the authors seek to understand to what extent a diffuse but still not
completely institutionalized academic discipline will be able to produce a comprehensive impact
around the European society in order to be more visible and effective in policy making and
policy processes.
