Why political practitioners in Washington avoid the APSA

The Irrelevance of Modern Political Science

There were no political luminaries in attendance at the American Political Science Association’s convention last week, ... One of the conference’s highlights, according to its Web site, was a panel titled “Is Political Science Relevant?”

I have often taken a random article from the American Political Science Review, which resembles a mathematical journal on most of its pages, and asked students if they can envision this method providing the mathematical formula that will deliver peace in the Middle East. Even the dullest students usually grasp the point without difficulty.

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