On 2/24/2012 8:28 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 2/24/2012 3:59 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 2/23/2012 10:57 AM, George Plimpton wrote:

Political science is little better, and to the extent it is, it's
because of the influence of economics. Economics "colonized" political
science starting about 30 or 40 years ago. Political science used
to be
like sociology - nothing but political opinion. The economists
"invaded"
poli sci and began to explain political phenomena - voting behavior,
party strategy - that the political scientists had never been able to
explain. The political scientists now use the methods of quantitative
taught to them by economists as everyday practice. But you wouldn't
have
learned anything about that at Chico.


Every time you write something it exposes the level of your ignorance.

No.

Your "history" of political science is wrong.

No, it's right. Why don't you ask some people in the field...people at a
good school, not a ******** like Chico.


Political science didn't come out of economics it came out of history.

I didn't say poli sci "came out of" economics, you dumb fat ****; can't
you read? I said it was stumbling along a lot like sociology up until
the 1960s, when economics "invaded" it and taught the political
scientists how to do quantitative analysis. They did that because
economists began to measure things that poli sci /should/ have been
analyzing, but never could, such as why people vote.

So when did you invent that nice little fairy tale?

I didn't invent it. I've already supplied links you can follow to read
about it.


Yeah? Where?

Hawke