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From the Editor's "Introduction and Comments":
As is now traditional we begin this issue of Perspectives on Politics with the presidential address, this year by Robert Axelrod who offers sound advice about how political scientists might alter what is commonly seen as a lopsided balance of trade with other disciplines. It is difficult to imagine a message more in keeping with my own vision for this journal.
The first of our research papers, KeallyMcBride’s “State
of Insecurity,” plumbs the recesses of fear and the corollary anxious impulse to predict and control embedded in our most basic political institutions.McBride relies on the Trial of Job as a vehicle for exploring themes of insecurity and punishment that are especially timely in the American context. Our second paper, too, is by political theorists. In “Democratic Theorists and Party Scholars” Ingrid van Biezen and Michael Saward lament the lack of intellectual engagement between those who study democratic theory and political parties. Theirs is not simply a lament, however. They offer a set of fruitful suggestions for how political scientists in the two sub-specialties might profitably surmount their mutual indifference.
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