Pour un dialogue entre science politique etscience studies

Abstract

The two disciplines of political science and science studies both use the words "politics" and "science", and yet their meaning are so different that they seem incommensurable : an effort is made to explain to political scientists the various uses of those words as it is used by the science studies practitioners and how they could relate to political science properly speaking. The paper shows that only one meaning (out of four) of the word "science" does actually distinguish it in a radical way from "politics" (which may take six different meanings). Once those meanings have been circumscribed, instead of defining distinct domains of science and politics, a more fruitful collaboration between science studies and political science could be developed around the following of issues. © Presses de Sciences Po.