Scholar-blogger taxonomy

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Via <a href="http://volokh.blogspot.com/2003_04_20_volokh_archive.html#200177274">Jacob Levy</a>, I learn that <a href="http://farrell.blogspot.com/">Henry Farrell</a> has reorganized his directory of scholar-bloggers by discipline. That’s something of a Herculean task, one that can lead to fistfights if one isn’t careful. For example, you won’t catch me discussing whether you can be opposed to empiricism and still be a political scientist—so I’ll refrain from talking about the <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/Perestroika.htm">Perestroika movement</a>, and just direct you to <a href="http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-polmeth&month=0207&week=b&msg=CdRdCYrvPCtJ0pCgIlWsGQ">Mr. Pravda’s comments</a> instead. For the record, I am a political scientist who studies mass political behavior, legislative behavior, political institutions, and political methodology. In a pinch, you can call me an Americanist, but I also study comparative politics—one of the three analytical chapters of my dissertation (<cite>The Role of Political Sophistication in the Use of Heuristics by Voters</cite>) looks at the role of political sophistication in the voting behavior of the Dutch electorate. My fundamental bias is toward empiricism (qualitative or quantitative, although I do much more of the latter—having data is nice), perhaps due to my undergrad days studying hard science and mathematics. What I’m not: a normative political theorist. I’m afraid any <abbr title="American Political Science Review" class="caps"><cite>APSR</cite></abbr> article with the word “Locke” in the title will fly straight over my head. Nor am I any good at game theory. http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/405 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=405