Granice w politologii jako wyznacznik tożsamości dyscypliny

Most of the debates on political science identity focus on scope and method. Many authors attempt to point to those elements that could prove the unique nature of political science, which seems impossible, as political science shares its subject and method with other social sciences. Moreover, within political science there are various approaches that function simultaneously, even though they adopt different ontological and methodological assumptions. The search for identity, as well as the awareness of the differences, makes political science a discipline that is internally divided, and political scientists, as depicted in Gabriel Almond’s metaphor, seem to be sitting at separate tables, without having any common features. The aim of this paper is to take a stand in these debates, by pointing to the fact that awareness and acceptance of the differences may determine the identity of political science. In other words, the boundaries, marked out by subject and method that divide political science might be decisive of its identity.