Opinion - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 17:14 - 0 Comments

Not That There’s Anything Wrong with Political Science

Steven White, a Poli Sci Ph.D student uptown at Columbia, takes issue with my dismissal of political science as a discipline. But I think political science is a fine and noble discipline! It’s just that I feel like viewing politics through a purely analytical lens is going to obfuscate just as much as it illuminates. An analytical approach has a lot of value, but like a non-analytical approach, it only gets you so far.
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