Word: fiorina
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...next year's course catalogue Wilson is listed as offering four courses. In the fall. Government 1500, "Bureaucracy," and Government 2305, "American Government and Politics," with Morris P. Fiorina, professor of Government. In the spring: Social Analysis 12, "Crime and Human Nature," with Pierce Professor of Psychology R. J. Hernstein and Government 30, "Introduction to American Government," also with Fiorin
Today, that distinction is about as quaint as a fairy tale. Earlier this week, Harvard successfully concluded negotiations with Morris P. Fiorina, a California Institute of Technology political scientist who applies empirical data to topics in the American electoral process. And last week, the Sociology Department made offers to three scholars who depend on computers for their research in social issues...
...Fiorina and the three sociologists--if they accept Harvard's offer--will hardly be the first scholars in their departments to log onto the computer. Fiorina would join a sizable complement of quantitative scholars in the Government Department, including Douglas A. Hibbs, Robert D. Putnam, and Sidney Verba, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. James A. Davis, the chairman of the Sociology Department who calls himself a "hardcore" quantitative scholar, is one of a handful of number pushers in Sociology...
...Government Department may undertake tenure searches with the intention of hiring a quantitative scholar, as it did with Fiorina, but Chairman John D. Montgomery insists that the department is building up its quantitative ranks warily. "There's been some disappointment among departments who have gone all out in that direction with an almost religious zeal," he says. "Many of them have taken the view that we've been laggards. We've moved cautiously, but very effectively...
Asked to describe his political beliefs. Fiorina said, "I'm philosophically close to being a libertarian, but I recognize many of those views are impractical...