China for Every Day

When you have reasonably enlightened rulers reflecting "substantive democracy," who needs mere "procedural democracy?"

Certainly not America's political scientists.

I'm a half-breed poli sci/history major, so this is of minor interest to me. I quit AHA long ago. I never bothered to join APSA. Not their kind, don't you know.

I don't really care how political scientists (or historians or plumbers, for that matter) organize themselves. They can name a chair-for-life as far as I'm concerned and mandate continuing forced reeducation courses to maintain the ideological purity of the vanguard of the dormetariate.

But don't dignify how you govern yourselves as a type of democracy when it is nothing of the sort. Political scientists should know that.

But perhaps they honestly don't know, which would alone be a sign of a major problem of subject-matter expertise.