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The First Casualty of the National Science Foundation Funding Cut for Political Science

by Robert Kelly | 12 April 2013, 0554 EDT | Featured | 26 Comments

If you belong to APSA, you probably got the email announcing the last-minute closure of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute because of the Coburn (left) amendment. Undergraduate programming like this is obviously pretty vulnerable. It doesn’t have the cachet of...

Mad Scientists? Try Bemused.

by Charli Carpenter | 8 October 2009, 0114 EDT | | 0 Comments

Senator Tom Coburn knows how to rankle political scientists. Float a bill claiming all their work is bunk and should receive no government funding. For those who want to read it, here's Coburn's...

Eggheads Requested

by Charli Carpenter | 3 August 2008, 0259 EDT | | 0 Comments

I wonder what readers of the Duck (and my co-bloggers) think about the DoD's "Minerva" social science initiative. Short story is, the Pentagon plans to fund $8 million worth of social science...

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The First Casualty of the National Science Foundation Funding Cut for Political Science

Mad Scientists? Try Bemused.

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