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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He doesn't hear, doesn't speak, nor participates in the political events. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The imbecile doesn't know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all: the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies."
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He doesn't hear, doesn't speak, nor participates in the political events. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The imbecile doesn't know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all: the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies."
_Bertolt
Brecht
We are using a systems-level approach to study complex problems in Political Science and decision-making.
We try to think about problems as an experimental scientist would: after identifying our questions we come up with experiments (in vivo or not) that can help us distinguish between hypothesis. We also think that many "natural experiments" have been run and that there is a large amount of data that we can analyze to guide our research.
Our current focus is on three main areas: