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APSA Presidents Reflect on Political Science: Who Knows What, When, and How?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

Jennifer L. Hochschild
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Several months ago, the editors of Perspectives on Politics invited the 12 most recent presidents of the APSA, the current president, and the president-elect to answer the following questions:

What one or two things has the discipline of political science taught us of really lasting political import over roughly the past two decades? What do we now know that we didn't know before, say, 1980 that really matters, whether for scholarship, political action, or policy improvement? Alternatively, what one or two really important questions or issues has political science failed to address or failed to address well? What new knowledge from political science might make a material difference in how we understand the world or how we act in it?

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 309 - 334
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© 2005 American Political Science Association

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