{"id":4840,"date":"2010-10-15T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2010-10-15T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:34:21","slug":"ten-things-political-scientists-know-that-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/15\/ten-things-political-scientists-know-that-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things Political Scientists Know That You Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New Republic<\/em> article <a title=\"Article in The New Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-cohn\/78403\/ten-things-political-scientists-know-you-dont&quot;\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ten Things Political Scientists Know That You Don&#8217;t<\/strong><\/a> by Jonathan Bernstein promotes the article of the same name by Hans Noel of Georgetown University.<\/p>\n<p>This is great article for political junkies who read this blog on a regular basis.  If you are a political scientist, you probably know about all this already.  After thinking about it for a while, I thought <q>So that&#8217;s what political science is all about.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>The article itself is published in <a title=\"Actual Article in The Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bepress.com\/forum\/vol8\/iss3\/art12\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, Vol. 8 (2010) \/ Issue 3<\/strong><\/a>. From here, you can download the 21 page article.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Republic<\/em> paraphrases item 3 as <q>Elections don&#8217;t  necessarily do what we want them to do.<\/q>.  I found the explanation of the item to be the clearest and most succinct description of the problem of finding a voting method that does do what we want it to do.<\/p>\n<p>You may or may not agree with some of the ten items, but you may also learn something in thinking about why you do or don&#8217;t agree.\u00a0 For instance,\u00a0 the scatter diagram of figure 1 in the article could just as easily be used to make the opposite point of much of the text for this item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic article Ten Things Political Scientists Know That You Don&#8217;t by Jonathan Bernstein promotes the article of the same name by Hans Noel of Georgetown University. This is great article for political junkies who read this blog on a regular basis. If you are a political scientist, you probably know about all this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}