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Article: Can politics be taught?
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- December 1, 1996
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The Dean of The Graduate School of Political Management Answers the Question:
The creation of a Masters degree in politics has produced its share of controversy. A number of political managers, such as George Stephanopolus, have opined that you can't teach politics in a classroom, while a few academics have disparaged the applied curriculum as less respectable than exertions aimed at theory-building scholarship. Any number of journalists have criticized the idea of a school devoted to training more spin doctors, media manipulators and opinion chasers. Meanwhile, through nine years of growth, students have come in droves to The Graduate School of Political Management, ...