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Dan Farber Ignorance as political bliss: The Republican war on social science

Dan Farber, professor of law | 2/26/13 | 4 comments

Several recent posts on the Legal Planet blog have been about the political process, discussing issues like political polarization, congressional deadlock, and special interest groups.  The discipline of political science is in large part the study of how collective decisions get made.

It would seem to be in everyone’s interest to … More >

Claude Fischer Differences under the differences

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 7/13/12 | 5 comments

Social scientists trying to understand what makes Americans tick often turn to cross-national surveys to compare Americans’ opinions to those of people in other countries. Such surveys show us, for example, that Americans are generally more religious, more patriotic, and more suspicious of government than are people most elsewhere.

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Claude Fischer Stumbling in the dark

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 11/28/11 | 2 comments

I recently turned to one of the central sources of information about social trends in America, The Statistical Abstract of the United States, described on its web page as “since 1878, the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.” Also … More >

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