Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Academic Politics and Political Academics

Claim: Political science is not compatible with real world and research carried out in universities and colleges and other educational institutions is mostly about modeling events happened in past.

Arguments:
  • There is a huge gape between theory and practice of political science. Scholars of political science have very little influence in everyday politics and on political parties.
  • Political science departments of universities of a country provide very small input or influence on the everyday politics of the country.
  • No matter how older and mature the political science departments of universities are, the country politics get nothing from this.
  • There is no such thing as political maturity or political advancement, like we say scientific and technological advancement. 
  • New generation politics in real world show very little maturity when compared to older generations politics.
  • Sometimes, the politics of newer generations are immature and stupid than the older generations politics.
For a case study, I can provide the example of USA politics, specially when it comes to wars and foreign policies. 
From the above points, it can be concluded that political science is just an intellectual luxury and brain-itching for some old professors which has very little to do with real world.
Most of the time, the theory of political science is rarely applied even in the office politics among the academic staff of the political science departments.
Isn't this strange or stupid?

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