In 95 Theses Anne Norton picks a fight with conventional
political science. She asks conventional political science to use
different measures (indeed, conceptualize what we do as something other
than “measuring”), use different methods, and ask different
questions. Some may read this as a threat to an entire way of life. I read
it as an intriguing and exciting challenge.Katherine Cramer Walsh is Assistant Professor of Political
Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison (kwalsh@polisci.wisc.edu). She
is the author of Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social
Identity in American Life (University of Chicago, 2004) and A
Practical Politics of Difference: Race, Community and Dialogue in Civic
Life (University of Chicago, forthcoming). Special thanks to Joe Soss
for extensive feedback and conversations on this essay.