Ignorance as Political Bliss: The Republican War on Social Science

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2013-02-25

Summary:

Several recent posts on this blog have been about the political process, discussing issues like political polarization, congressional deadlock, and special interest groups.  The discipline of political science is in large part the study of how collective decisions get made.  It would seem to be in everyone’s interest to have a better understanding of collective [...]

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http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/flunking-poli-sci-101/

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politics regulatory policy anti-science attitudes collection action problems political science research

Authors:

Dan Farber

Date tagged:

02/25/2013, 09:50

Date published:

02/25/2013, 08:57