Why I Hate Political Science

This link is for those of your non-academics who wonder why I hate a discipline that I've been attached to since I started undergrad. In a nutshell, it's because of the hegemony of mathematical and formal research methods in political science and the associated emphasis of universal theories of politics, devoid of reference to specific context, history or culture. Now this is a vast over-generalization and simplification, but you get the basic idea. Fortunately, there has been a backlash movement for over 5 years called Perestroika. You can read about Perestroika here, here, and here. Even with the pendulum swinging away from the stuff I hate about political science, though, I still don't know if I can stomach teaching and researching in this discipline. I'll make that final decision, though, when my dissertation is done!