'This compelling volume literally spans the globe, from North America to Europe and on to the Middle East, as it apprehends how agenda-setting and research support by public authorities can redirect and limit the contours and content of political science. Sharply argued, the essays raise many points of concern'.

Chapter 1: Understanding Scholarly Shifts - A Matter of Relevance.- PART I - FOUNDATIONS AND CONCEPTS.- Chapter 2: Incentives for Impact: Relevance Regimes Through a Cross-National Perspective.- Chapter 3: Towards a Tyranny of State-Directed Relevance? Co-option, Control and Research Funding.- PART II - COUNTRY CASE STUDIES.- Chapter 4: Research in a Racially Structured State: The Role of the U. S. National Science Foundation.- Chapter 5: Australia's Politics of Research Funding: Depoliticisation and the Crisis of the Regulatory State.- Chapter 6: The Unplanned and Underfunded Co-Option of Political Science in France.- Chapter 7: Political and Social Forces Shaping Political Science Research and Knowledge Transfer in the Netherlands.- Chapter 8: When Illiberalism Meets Neoliberalism: The State and the Social Sciences in Present Hungary.- Chapter 9: Undermining the Role of Political Science: State-Directed Research Funding in the Visegrad States.- Chapter 10: Political Science or Science in the Service of Politics: Internal and External Co-option in Belarus.- Chapter 11: Social Sciences as an Instrument of National Development? The Case of Qatar.- PART III - ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS.- Chapter 12: From Deference and the Politicization of Research Funding to a New Politics of Political Science