Is it true that «Where democracy is strong, political science is strong»? Analysis of 39 countries' political scientists survey results
The paper provides an attempt to test empirically Samuel Huntington's well-known thesis about the relationship between democracy and political science, based on data, obtained from a survey «Professionalization and Social Impact of European Political Science» (ProSEPS) conducted among political scientists from 39 countries. The authors find significant relationships between the level of democracy and some parameters of political science; primarily, with the presence of political science in public field. In the final part of the work, hypotheses are put forward about other possible explanations of country differences in the development of political science.