Is it true Johns Hopkins Theory associate professor was hired a year after writing a book about the Senior Theorist at JHU??
seems unethical.
JHU
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Book was published in 2007; he started working there in 2008Posted 9 months ago # -
lesson: write a book about the Senior person there, and u get a job
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Actually, the assoc prof in question co-edited a volume of writings by the senior prof in question -- one of a series of volumes about contemporary political theorists (which the assoc. prof edits).
JHU also hired the senior theorist in question's wife. It's all very cozy at JHU.Posted 9 months ago # -
Yes, imagine a spousal hire and another hire where the person's interests fit with the department. Any evidence that these hires were demonstrably weaker than other candidates, or that the dept was riven with discord? No? Ah.
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^On the contrary, the dept seems to be particularly lacking in discord.
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the dept seems to be particularly lacking in discord.
This is surprising considering they are so close to DC.
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i hate the whiny emo rites of spring
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salad days was best
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Ian is a small man with a big mouth
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Anyone surprised by cronyism hasn't seen much of the world.
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writing a book about the senior person and getting a job there is beyond cronyism.
they need to remedy thatPosted 9 months ago # -
^ Why? Maybe its a really great book.
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Put "theory" in quotes. It isn't really theory. It's literary philosophy.
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I offer you this prediction (and you wish I was a lousy forecaster):
Political theory is on the way out of this discipline. It will be absconded to the lowest flights of the humanities as real social SCIENCE completes its takeover of soc, econ, polisci, comm, and psych. Stevens et al are accelerating that path and nailing their own coffins. Even tenured theorists and quals will continue to be jettisoned. They will be replaced with people who do things that matter.
This is what will thrive: American and comparative behavioralists (+a few IR people) with top-flight quant training skilled in answering applied theoretical questions using observational and experimental analysis. People like that will claim a place alongside physics, engineering, and other respected disciplines. The rise of finance and economics has presaged this (though this kind of political scientists will be even better equipped).
If you know anyone in grad school interested in theory or pure qual and if you care about their welfare, tell them to run for the hills (or perish).
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"continue to be jettisoned" implies that tenured theorists and qualitative scholars are being jettisoned today. I guess I missed that development. So you don't know what you're talking about. Also, scientism is very tiresome. Believe me, there were people talking smack about theory 40 years ago. Theory is still here. Penn State is not the discipline.Posted 9 months ago # -
lolz funny grad kids
we've been here since Plato, we'll be here long after your silly quant jokes are up
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kickin back with blow, booze and a hooker...god it feels great to have tenure now, you tard quants!
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At least qualities know what "absconded" means. If the future of the discipline really does lie with illiterate idiots like the one writing above, God help us all.
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Ha! Quallies = qualities. Funny autocorrect.
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^^^^^^ While I hate to speak for the rest of the discipline, I know that at my R2, this is true. When our last theorist retires next year, we are replacing him with a comparativist/IR person that can teach methods. In 20 years we will have gone from a department with 3 theorists to 0. For us, it isn't a question of qual vs quant--it is supply and demand. Our majors are filling all of our upper-level classes to the gills EXCEPT the theory classes, which routinely struggle to even hit double-digits. In an era when deans are micromanaging enrollments to maximize tuition $$, it simply does not make any sense for us to continue to staff a position that only teaches 1/5th of the students that all of our other faculty teach.
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That's a shame. In my experience, course enrollments have more to do with the quality of the instructor than the subject matter. And it seems hard to believe a college or university would award a degree in politics to students who have never talked about the major normative principles that constitute the stuff of it (equality, justice, freedom -- I'm sure you've heard of them).
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^ You know, I was almost going to give you a better explanation, but your snarky comment at the end clearly shows you don't actually care.
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If you can't fill a theory course, you've got the wrong people teaching it.
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^ Thats funny--almost had me there for a second...
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^^^^ Well, your compete lack of concern about the evisceration of your department's curriculum suggests to me that you don't care. So why should I?
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At our school the bigger problem is that the theorist only wants to teach theory classes, so despite him being a popular teacher there just aren't enough students to fill three large sections of political theory every semester.
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im a theorist and just got tenured
suck on that, quantsPosted 9 months ago # -
Did Lester Spence get tenure?
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yes
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