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Medicine and Political Science: Parallel Lessons in Methodological Excess

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2003

Edward Schatz
Affiliation:
Is assistant professor of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has been a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies (Harvard) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Notre Dame). His work broadly examines issues in identity politics, the political ramifications of social transformation, and state capacity, with a particular focus on former Soviet Central Asia. He is finishing a book on clan politics in Central Asia.
Irwin J. Schatz
Affiliation:
Is assistant professor of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has been a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies (Harvard) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Notre Dame). His work broadly examines issues in identity politics, the political ramifications of social transformation, and state capacity, with a particular focus on former Soviet Central Asia. He is finishing a book on clan politics in Central Asia.

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