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I don't know but I'll take the opportunity to advertise today's post.
http://cdnpoliscijobs.blogspot.com/2011/02/buying-american.html
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Then go away. And if you think that Canadian programs offer poor methods training, then you've either never been to UBC OR you got your PhD at McMaster. Either way, poor you.
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An Associate with so much knowledge to share, and yet who spends all his time on PSJR. lolol
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@polcanprof, where did you get the **** that you are selling from? Must be a pretty lonely island somewhere out there.
It's so 1990s to talk about a methods divide. And, how can you say that the US system lacks diversity (e.g., I guess, you didn't follow the recent APSA election)?
Dispensing myths on a weekly basis.
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No, it is not "so 90s" to talk about the methods divide. Just scan the rustbelt programs that are top 25 (Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, MSU, etc.) and you will see no requirement in their "methods" sequence but an undying allegiance to quantitative methods. As someone who got a degree from one of these institutions, I am sick and tired of hearing quants say "it's not a problem, there is no divide," when graduate training so systematically favors them at a great many of the top 25. Similarly, those piece of **** journals APSR and AJPS that so enthrall Americanists are still dominated by quants. With Americanists constituting a core voting block at most schools, don't tell me that an interpretivist candidate with a great vita beats even a mediocre a quant most places.
Grrrrr!
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"... that an interpretivist candidate with a great vita ..."
... but where is this mythical beast hiding? at York?
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What a hilarious blog! I wish that I had attended a Canadian university, given the diversity exhibited in them.
I can't keep up the facade. What complete idiocy. No diversity in American programs? Does this dumb Canuck have any idea how many political science programs there are in the US?
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polcanprof enough. Nobody wants to check out your crazy-**** blog. Do you really need to advertise every bloody week?
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One of PolcanProf's commenters is now "indulging himself" with an analogy. Odds are he comments on his own blog.
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I am the one to blame for that entry.
Aside for the “Good Enough for Government Work” entry that came across as contempt for public service jobs, I have to say that PolCan’s blog entries have been consistently thought-provoking and insightful. I personally appreciate the wisdom contained in this blog. It is commendable that a professor takes time to offer mentoring advices to students and novice faculty members, even if they are not at his-her institution.
All in all, it serves a purpose. This is more than I can say about most of the Canadian threads on PSJR: no name of who was interviewed or hired, no scoops, but plenty of bashing.Posted 2 years ago # -
Most Canadians I've met have seemed like nice, well adjusted, happy people. What's with the political scientists? What's wrong with them? They actually seem worse--more bitter, more petty, bigger assholes--than their American counterparts, which is saying something. Why?
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^ ERZ: you know the saying about academic battles being so bitter and hard-fought because the stakes are so small? That does quadruple for Canada. In reality, Canada has as much more compressed quality. The difference between their best universities and their middling universities is pretty insignificant. For some reason, that ups the ante for getting worked up about the miniscule distinctions. That and the sense of inferiority because they haven't been able to keep up with the fetishization of quanitative methods South of the border, and you've got your answer.
Not that it's very satsifying. I've met a few genuinely decent people in Canadian poli sci, but they're sadly few and far between. I cope with it by interacting with my colleagues as little as possible.
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Polcanprof posts his own opinions. There's nothing there that ABDs can't get from their own supervisors.
And there's the rub. My supervisor intentionally protected me from the market until it made sense for me to begin applying. When I asked him and brought up these issues, he basically told me to get lost. Now I understand why. The market is hell and its better to enjoy the PhD experience. That means that you'll focus and (hopefully) produce genuinely quality scholarship in the dissertation, which is more likely to result in a job anyway.
Now, when I see 2nd year PhDs on the jobs blog, hanging on the words of Polcanprof or McIRProf (if, indeed, they are different people), and transparently shmoozing at the CPSA banquets, it makes me very sad. If you want advice, folks, go to your supervisor. They'll give you what you need, even if you don't like it.
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**** A
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