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Nothing Succeeds like Success: The Past and Future of European Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2014

Gerald Schneider
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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 2014 , pp. 153 - 161
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Copyright © The European Political Science Association 2014 

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Gerald Schneider is Professor of Political Science, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Box 86, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany ([email protected]) and the 2nd president of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) (2013–15). This article is based on his Presidential Address delivered on 19 June 2014, during the 4th Annual Meeting of the EPSA at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The author would like to thank Ken Benoit and Vera Tröger for comments, Michael Bolle and Oliver Fläschner for unearthing details about “elevator professors,” and Johann Maier for research assistance. Data and code for the analysis can be found at http://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/en/gschneider/working-papers/replication-data/. To view Supplementary material for this article, Please visit http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2014.17

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