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Fowler recalls one government seminar—Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Robert H. Bates’ “Politics and Economics of Policy Reform”—which was discontinued after the prevalence of KSG students in the course slowed down discussion considerably...
...KSG students often are taking a break in the middle of established careers in politics or policy, while government students are typically laying the foundations for academic careers...
...schools’ historic separation has not stopped KSG students from routinely cross-registering in FAS classes. And when such different approaches to the same topic collide in the classroom—the more professional and the purely academic—students and faculty are not immune to passing judgments...
...People who cross-register [in KSG courses] sometimes say they didn’t feel intellectually challenged in an academic sense, and Kennedy School people feel what they learned [in FAS classes] was interesting, but they don’t see how it applies,” he adds...
Bates says he stopped offering the course because his research interests changed, but that the weak background in formal political theory of the eight or nine KSG students—out of 12 in the seminar—made discussions difficult...