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Jonathan Bendor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • herbert a simon Political Scientist
    Annual Review of Political Science, 2003
    Co-Authors: Jonathan Bendor
    Abstract:

    ▪ Abstract Although Herbert Simon's work is often cited by Political Scientists, it has not generated a large research program in the discipline. This is a waste of a major intellectual resource. The main challenge to the rational choice research program—now the most important research program in Political science—can be developed by building on Simon's ideas on bounded rationality. The essay defends this assertion by examining how the work of both the early Simon (primarily satisficing-and-search models) and the later Simon (on problem solving) can shed light on important topics in our discipline such as budgeting, turnout, and party competition.

Erin Richards - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

John Orbell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • teaching bioeconomics a Political Scientist s experience teaching evolutionary psychology
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2005
    Co-Authors: John Orbell
    Abstract:

    When the European colonial powers were slicing up Africa during the late 19th century, they paid little or no attention to ethnic, historical or cultural divisions; each power grabbed what it could, and fought whatever boundary skirmishes were necessary in order to retain whatever it believed was rightfully its own. The result (after World War I shook things down somewhat) was the Political and ethnic incoherence that continues to cripple African economic and social development, and is likely to do so for the foreseeable future. In a fairly close analogy, when the structure of American universities was being decided about the same time, each discipline—or nascent discipline—grabbed whatever intellectual territory it could, paying close attention to defining and defending its own unique mandate, while eschewing any effort to identify common intellectual concerns. The result, replicated in universities across the US and now the world, is the intellectual incoherence that continues to cripple the social sciences as cumulative, empirically based endeavor. And it appears to be an equilibrium. Periodic attempts by isolated universities to create integrated social science programs are at a serious competitive disadvantage in placing their graduates, thus in attracting strong applicants; and they are at a comparable disadvantage in the discipline-based ratings game to which deans pay close attention. Similarly, periodic attempts by members of one discipline to intrude their own concepts and analytics into the subject matters claimed by others produce, at best, nicely quarantined ‘sub-fields’ with their own specialized journals and academic meetings, a process strikingly similar to that by which the immune system isolates and renders harmless invading pathogens. The yawning gap between the methods and concepts of the several social sciences and those of the life sciences—notably Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, Ethology—has proved an even more formidable divide, one that is particularly distressing at the present time, given the major advances in those fields during the past forty or so years. Professional training in, say, Political Science (my own discipline), can and often does involve concepts and methods from Economics, Psychology, Sociology, and even Anthropology, thus ensuring at least a modicum of cross-disciplinary literacy among future disciplinary

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Russell A Burgos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • an n of 1 a Political Scientist in operation iraqi freedom
    Perspectives on Politics, 2004
    Co-Authors: Russell A Burgos
    Abstract:

    A bunker is an odd place to reconsider a course syllabus, especially during a mortar attack in the middle of the night. Teaching the historical case study method in introductory courses in international relations, I often told students that we need history in IR, since our theories do not lend themselves to laboratory testing. In the future, I'll drop that comment. Since February 2003, I have been serving on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom, mostly in the Sunni Triangle. Wartime service has proved to be something of a laboratory for me and has caused me to reevaluate some of the received wisdom of international relations. War has validated some things we teach, but it has also rendered problematic some conclusions I held perhaps too comfortably. I have been trained by the military to see war with a soldier's eye; it has been a strange experience to see it instead through the eyes of a Political Scientist. Service in Iraq has provided me the opportunity to consider the academic study of politics and war in real time. The author wishes to thank Dan Caldwell, Deborah Larson, Alan Rozzi, James Q. Wilson, the editors of Perspectives on Politics , anonymous reviewers, and the men and women in uniform lost during Operation Iraqi Freedom.