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In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 189-189
ISSN: 1467-8497
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In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 189-189
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: College Outline Series 22
In: American political science review, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 977-990
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 372-372
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: International affairs, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 122-122
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: International affairs, Volume 39, Issue 1, p. 93-93
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 86-97
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The University Teaching of Social Sciences
In: Teaching in the social sciences
In: American political science review, Volume 52, Issue 4
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: American political science review, Volume 52, Issue 4, p. 1026-1029
ISSN: 0003-0554
What is objectionable in the `new look' in pol'al sci is not quantification as such, but false quantification. From the objective voting behavior of Supreme Court justices,. Schubert & Kort (See SA 4978) have drawn certain uniformities & posited mathematic principles enabling prediction of future action of the Court. This is to confuse the sci'st with the bookmaker, trying to predict behavior of individual units. Moreover, using content analysis to set up a scale of mathematical determinants is here a petitio principii as in the first place it should be proved that judges think in that way. Until behaviorists concern themselves with this level of analysis, their labors remain marginal to the essence of the discipline. IPSA.
In: American political science review, Volume 52, Issue 4, p. 1026-1029
ISSN: 1537-5943
I want to dissent initially from the rather constricting frame of reference that Schubert has established in his paper. He has every right in the world to set rhetorical snares, but I have no intention of walking into them. If I may summarize, Schubert asserts that he is a spokesman for a radical new direction in the study of public law, claiming that the old ways are moribund. He further urges that we should look with envy at the creative function of the social psychologists who supplied the Supreme Court with the banners it carried in Brown v. Board of Education while we were bumbling around with historical and philosophical trivia. He concludes that instead of wasting our time with talmudic disputations on whether the Supreme Court reached the "right" or the "wrong" decisions in specific cases, we should settle down to build a firm "scientific" foundation for our discipline.Not the least amusing aspect of this indictment is that I find myself billed as the defender of the ancien régime, as the de Maistre of public law. Therefore, for the benetfit of the young and impressionistic, let me break loose from Schubert's rhetorical trap: I too think that much of the research done in public law—and, for that matter, in political science generally—has been trivial.