@article{e7aa55ef6f77407da7b0d805a395fc97,
title = "The Other Danger... Scholasticism in Academic Research",
author = "Mead, {Lawrence M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The main public funding for political science and other social sciences comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Political scientists complain that they get less than their share of this money. But the reason is that Congress sees less value in what they do than in the natural sciences. Politicians ask how political science improves on what they already know about government from journalism or general knowledge. In 2000, one of the APSA journals published a symposium on the supposed value of political science to government. The research cited, however, would be of little interest outside the discipline. One finding, for instance, is the “democratic peace”—the fact that countries with elected governments seldom make war on each other any more.23 That would be no revelation to an audience of Foreign Service officers. The idea that scholastic political science, or any social science, has much to teach government professionals is presumptuous.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/s12129-010-9192-9",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "404--419",
journal = "Academic Questions",
issn = "0895-4852",
publisher = "National Association of Scholars",
number = "4",
}