How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

In anthropology, contested notions of excellence reflect the influ- ence of post-structuralism, which emerges particularly in de ...

therewas...considerable consistency, homogeneity of the scores. So in [the] meeting, in terms of the cream rising to the top, th ...

leaders are not chosen through competitive elections); and more methodological pluralism, including greater disciplinary support ...

serts, “That’s the field where the cancer of economics has spread most. So our field is kind of penetrating that field and perce ...

raises problems for academics outside of political science. Among evaluators I interviewed, this was particularly the case for a ...

believe that the conflict around rational choice theory is receding, or that it has been exaggerated. Despite the divisiveness t ...

the evidence or they don’t. If they have the evidence, then it’s nicely done.” Economics: Unified by Mathematical Formalism Econ ...

have seen their proportional representation decline by a percentage point or more over the past thirty or so years, largely due ...

are often very critical of the assumptions that applicants from eco- nomics make in their proposals. An anthropologist comments, ...

mensional, traversed by networks and literatures that are not always bounded by disciplines. The current state of American polit ...

politics as criteria of evaluation. In contrast, economics is viewed as being influenced very little by politics. Thus although ...

anthropology is becoming more inward-looking and engaged in dis- ciplinary boundary work in an effort to distinguish what is wor ...

customary rules. Chief among these is the rule of cognitive con- textualization, which requires that panelists use the criteria ...

4/Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberation It’s just very pragmatic. You put twelve pretty smart people in a win- dow ...

tradiction does not affect me very much...Everything is relative in some ways, but I do believe there are real qualities, which ...

can step outside of their own interests and out of their own interest groups and look at something from another perspective.” A ...

works very well,” but then adds, “It’s just hard to articulate what it is.” This chapter aims to clarify the complicated dynamic ...

elists do pay careful attention to, the ones that lead them to assign great legitimacy to the outcome of their deliberations, ar ...

process, panelists are expected to work hard to keep their personal connections and idiosyncratic preferences from affecting the ...

enjoyment motivate academics to add to their already considerable workload by serving on funding panels. The wonderment of dis- ...