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Selected Works of Mindy Peden
Presentation
Betting on Democracy: Luck and Possibility in the Modern Political Imagination
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)
  • Mindy Peden, John Carroll University
Abstract

If there are political implications to methodological choices, what are they? This paper is about the political implications of one particular methodology: probability theory. More correctly, this paper is about how social scientists, especially political scientists, use probability theory in understanding the actions of human beings.

Disciplines
Publication Date
April, 2007
Citation Information
Mindy Peden. "Betting on Democracy: Luck and Possibility in the Modern Political Imagination" Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mindy_peden/10/