Statement: Ezra Klein of Washington Post
Poli Sci 101: Presidential speeches don't matter, and lobbyists don't run D.C.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091002671.html
Examples of four good research pieces and complaints about inattention to APSA Sept 2010 meeting by policy-makers.
Rebuttal: Steven Hayward of American Enterprise Institute
The Irrelevance of Modern Political Science
http://www.american.com/archive/2010/september/the-irrelevance-of-modern-political-science
Examples of "trashy" topics and juxtaposition with economic science and criticism of preoccupation with quantiative methods
Re-statement John Sides, a political scientist who contributes to The Monkey Cage blog
On the Irrelevance of Political Science
http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/09/on_the_irrelevance_of_politica_1.html
Criticizes Haywards one-sided choice of topics and his juxtaposition of polisci people with economists and advances explanations for polisci research not being so outspoken and popularized as economics research.
I found good arguements in all three pieces.
Enjoy if you have a professional crisis like I do right now!
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