Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Probing the ‘Informed’ Voter: Philip Converse, 1928-2014
Philip Converse looked at the “informed voter” and questioned just what sort of information that voter really possessed, forever changing the assumptions behind political science research.
First Citizen of the Caribbean: Norman Girvan, 1941-2014
Economist Norman Girvan, one of the Caribbean’s most respected social scientists and a consistent and loud voice for greater unity in the region, died last month.
The Economist for the Rest of Us: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014
Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker, one of the University of Chicago economists who unshackled the dismal science from its focus on the behavior of money to the behavior of people, has died.
A Radical Democrat: Ernesto Laclau, 1933-2014
Well-known leftist political theorist Ernesto Laclau, an Argentinian who made his home in the United Kingdom and with his partner Chantal Mouffe […]
Argentina’s Voice of Discourse: Eliseo Verón, 1935-2014
The father of Argentinian semiotics, Eliseo Verón, has died at age 78.
Never Afraid of Living: William Chambliss, 1933-2014
The author of the paradigm-changing “On The Take” had a zest for life that epitomized the “sociological imagination,” reports his long-time friend and colleague Rich Applebaum.
Pluralism’s Ringmaster: Robert Dahl, 1915-2014
Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.
A Perceptive Outsider Always Looking In: Stuart Hall, 1932-2014
The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.
