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Applying Norton's Challenge to the Study of Political Behavior: Focus on Process, the Particular, and the Ordinary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2006

Katherine Cramer Walsh
Katherine Cramer Walsh
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University of Wisconsin-Madison (kwalsh@polisci.wisc.edu)
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In 95 Theses Anne Norton picks a fight with conventional political science. She asks conventional political science to use different measures (indeed, conceptualize what we do as something other than “measuring”), use different methods, and ask different questions. Some may read this as a threat to an entire way of life. I read it as an intriguing and exciting challenge.Katherine Cramer Walsh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison (kwalsh@polisci.wisc.edu). She is the author of Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (University of Chicago, 2004) and A Practical Politics of Difference: Race, Community and Dialogue in Civic Life (University of Chicago, forthcoming). Special thanks to Joe Soss for extensive feedback and conversations on this essay.

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REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 353 - 359
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© 2006 American Political Science Association

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