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Response to Ben Berger's review of Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2012

Extract

I am encouraged by Ben Berger's reaction to my book, and hopeful that other readers will be as open-minded. Of course, the drawback of Berger's Cassandra comparison is that if it is apt, that will not be the case. Similarly, the drawback of any attempt at a paradigm shift in Kuhn's terms is that nearly every attempt fails, and it is difficult for the author himself to distinguish a negative reaction motivated by philosophical conservatism from a negative reaction motivated by intrinsic weakness in the unconventional argument itself.

Type
Critical Dialogue
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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