January 13, 2006

Political Science and the Real World

To the Editor:

The problem of current political science, as Alan Wolfe intimates in "Reality in Political Science" (The Chronicle Review, November 4), goes beyond the widespread use of rational-choice analysis by political scientists. Political science, as practiced today, suffers because so many political scientists have not worked in either politics or government, nor have they bothered to go into the field and study politicians and civil servants firsthand.

Instead, many

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