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Politics, Political Science, and Specialization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2002

Robert Jervis
Affiliation:
Columbia University

Abstract

Contemporary political science is specialized, deeply concerned with its methods, and politicized. It also remains peripheral to most public debates. But the relationships among these characteristics are ambiguous and each yields advantages as well as costs.

Type
SYMPOSIUM
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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