Schelling
Greatest political scientist of all time?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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This question is a lot like the GOAT question in sports. Most disciplines, including political science, are more like football than basketball in that skill sets and measures of success are fragmented. Basketball has similar metrics for each player type. Consequently, it is a sport with a universal greatest recognized by acclimation (and because Jordan was just that good). On the other hand, the greatest football player is better described by greatest at a particular position. You wouldn't expect a great quarterback to have similar measures of success as a great defensive end. Similarly, you wouldn't expect a great institutionalists to be great at behavior or a great theorist to be great at IR.
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^ wow. You're serious, aren't you?
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Riker
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Don't you love PSJR:
^^^ posts a legitimate answer. And, ^^ responds with snark.
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Don't you f'ing hate PSJR:
^^^^ posts a legitimate answer, ^^^ responds with snark, and ^ comes back with contempt.
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You call blathering on about interminable sports analogies a "serious answer"?
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greatest...Mao
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Gagnon...again
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So who is the Dick Butkus of political science? The Joe Montana? The Ryan Leaf? The Bill Parcells? Etc
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The Dick Butkus of political science is J. Gill. Also, the greatest political scientist of all-time is Malcolm Jewell!
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Przeworski, hands down
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Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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How could you guys forget about the American Voter authors? Even ^ didn't mention them, and he wrote 6 paragraphs.
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Carles Boix hands down
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What a joke - except it's not funny
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One could make a solid argument for Bartels.
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^ try it. Bartels > Key, Dahl, Waltz, Converse, Lipset, etc?? Ha ha ha.
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Who is Battles?
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Malcolm Jewell anyone????
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Stalin
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In terms of lasting impact on the discipline, for better or for worse, Bill Riker's is difficult to top.
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Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice.
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Art Vandelay
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Dick Cheney is the greatest political scientist to come out of UW-Madison. Yes, that includes The Kingmeister.
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The inventor of political science was the greatest political scientist.
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how has marx not being mentioned
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^ Karl Marx was not a political scientist. His PhD was in philosophy, and a lot of his scholarly research was in economics. His political writings were mostly propaganda (although he did do a bit of classic quallie storytelling in the 18th Brumaire).
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the study of political science is intimately related to philosophy and economics. you can't really ask meaningful question in theory without referencing phil and you can't tackle pertinent issues in the science without economic implications. marx predates political science but is surely an important figure in the formation of the discipline.
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^ Are you serious? MARX?
WTF is wrong with you people?
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