Mémoire en science politique[BR]- "Research in Political Sciences between Theory and Practice: What is applied Research in Political Sciences?"[BR]- Séminaire d'accompagnement à l'écriture

Abstract

3 Abstract The main objective of this research is to define applied research in political sciences, explore its purpose, identify the main actors involved, and explain the process of its conduction. It also aims to understand the role that plays this type of research in bridging the gap between science and practice in the political sciences field, from political science to political practices. Through a review of the literature that defines applied research in general, and in other fields of study such as business and management study, the literature that introduces the field of political sciences, and the literature that explains the main challenges encountered for ensuring the applicability and usefulness of research results in this field, we extracted three main concepts on which we based our qualitative study: defining applied research in political sciences, conducting applied research in political sciences, and its applicability in the practical political world. The conduction of our study through semi-structured individual interviews to a selected sample of researchers, and the analysis of two applied research works, we were able to draw a clear definition of applied research in political sciences based on the WWH (What, Why, How) model, and a modelling of the process of this kind of research as well as the process of transition from scientific results to actionable solutions.