In a 1997 APSA plenary address, Ralph Nader questioned the value of political science. You all study power, he noted. And yet, how strange it is that I don't know anyone in power who is the least bit afraid of a political scientist! With the way you conduct your research, the material that is published, and the way you teach, you political scientists have managed to make yourselves irrelevant to the world of
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