01; he was John M。 Olin Visiting Professor in American Government at Nuffield College; Oxford。 His research concerns ; : Party Loyalty Among Congressmen; Congress: The Electoral Connection; Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginal; Placing Parties in American Politics; Divided We Govern; America?蒺s Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere; James Madison through Newt Gingrich; and Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre。
C: Regarding social science research; what are the characteristics of good research?
D: It’s hard to answer this question without being boring。 It should be innovative。 There is no point to do something that people have already done a lot before。 It has an interesting question to ask。 It should be sound and well…done and of course it is well…written or people won’t read it。
C: How would you weigh the importance of forming good research questions versus developing good research methodologies?
D: Both are important but if you don’t have an interesting and good question; you might start at a wrong point。 The problem of social science research in the ; too narrow to be interesting。 There is a large range of interesting questions to explore。
C: I think the definition of a good research is different for undergraduates and graduates。
D: For ; we tell them you are writing a book。 The dissertation should be movable to a book。 Some publishers told me that two departments are well…known among publishers for generating dissertation books; Chicago and Yale。 A dissertation book is often narrower than what will e ten years later because it is the first book and it is not famous or sound or important as the books we often see。 Nevertheless; a dissertation book should be reasonably broad; in