How does he compare to other political scientists these days? He's somewhat quantitative, but in a pretty reasonable and useful way. Is that what the profession is mostly like, or are they getting more like economists, lost in silly numbers games? Doug <<<<<>>>>>
paper that bartels wrote with achen about electoral implications of natural disasters used to be available on line but link no longer appears to work...
your question re. poli sci as been *the big question* in discipline for number of years, issue spawned so-called 'perestroika' movement among those claiming that 'quantoids' rule the roost (which is largely true), significant consequence has been that outside audience for poli sci narrowed (and even disappeared, which may explain invisibility of achen & bartels in aftermath of new orleans/gulf coast calamities), political science 'professionalism' - whether of the behavioral or post-behavioral/quantitative or qualitative paths - has obscured fundamental conflicts/choice in political life, as such, 'revolt' of more qualitative poli sci folks in recent years is one more attempt at internal reform that will do little to open 'iron cage' that discipline has become trapped in... michael hoover
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