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Getting Americans to switch from paying 50˘ for a lightbulb to $50 won't be easy. But such shifts have happened before. Electric toothbrush, anyone?
“Where at one time social scientists worked by themselves in their offices thinking great thoughts, we are now getting to the point where many more of these thoughts are associated with hard empirical evidence,” King added.
But King is not solely focused on the social sciences’ quantitative side, said Government Professor Kenneth A. Shepsle. “He’s actually interested in getting young scholars to take whatever evidence they have in whatever form it comes in—whether qualitative or...
"In healthy economic times, getting voters to approve taxes and fees to support state parks is challenging but doable," Bailey says. But in times like these, she notes, it's virtually impossible.
Whatever the new rules say, experts agree they aren't likely to delve into too much minutiae. "[They are] not going to clarify that driving someone to the airport is O.K., but getting on the plane with them isn't," Jackson says. "[They are] much more likely to specify relevant...