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Just wanted to pass along this\u00a0troubling piece of news: In the US, the\u00a0House has voted<\/a> to abolish funding for political science from the National Science Foundation altogether, and\u00a0to cut<\/a> the American Community Survey – an in-depth representative survey providing data to policy makers (education, housing, etc). The Dark Ages are nigh (if they haven’t yet arrived).<\/p>\n

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Just wanted to pass along this\u00a0troubling piece of news: In the US, the\u00a0House has voted to abolish funding for political science from the National Science Foundation altogether, and\u00a0to cut the American Community Survey – an in-depth representative survey providing data to policy makers (education, housing, etc). The Dark Ages are nigh (if they haven’t yet arrived).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[41,44],"tags":[69,283,502],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-7t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":724,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=724","url_meta":{"origin":463,"position":0},"title":"The failure of political science","date":"March 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week the American Senate\u00a0supported with a clear bi-partisan majority a decision to stop funding for political science research from the National Science Foundation. Of all disciplines, only political science has been singled out for the cuts and the money will go for cancer research instead. 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