Introduction -- Part I : Perspectives on relevance -- Challenging three blockages to relevance and political science: The obvious, the avoidable and the thorny -- The relevance of relevance -- Relevant to whom? Relevant for what? The role and public responsibility of the political analyst -- The rediscovery of the political imagination -- Guilty as charged? Human well-being and the unsung relevance of political science -- Why did nobody warn us? Political science and the crisis -- Part II : Relevance the contribution of sub-disciplines and diverse approaches -- The relevance of the academic study of public policy -- Why political theory matters -- Constructivism and interpretive approaches : Especially relevant or especially not? -- Is comparative politics useful? if so, for what? -- Can political science solve the puzzles of global governance? -- Maximising the relevance of political science for public policy in the era of big data -- Conclusion

1. Political science -- Philosophy