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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bartels, Brandon L.
• Bonneau, Chris W.

Titel

Some Ideas on How Political Scientists Can Develop Real-World Implications from Their Research (Without Becoming Policy Wonks or Law Professors)

Ist Teil von

• Making Law and Courts Research Relevant, 2015, p.32-44

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bridging the gap between science and politics, and political science and the legal academy, will be difficult, but in the end science will stand on its own, normative inferences will improve, and common ground will be discovered. Without new approaches for disseminating information and facilitating fruitful exchanges among experts on the issue of state judicial selection, the status quo will not change. This means that the monopoly will continue of legal advocacy organizations and self-interested lobbyists whose primary arguments remain largely unsubstantiated and, on some points, are sharply incompatible with well-established principles of political science. Unprincipled attacks on empirical scholarship by interest groups and other political players almost certainly will occur when evidence contradicts their strategies and goals. These tactics may even be effective in the short term. However, even the nastiest tactics will not stop the march of science on vitally important topics like judicial selection.