political-science

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Essays

beyond regression

essay draft 2026-07-30 · werbos, karl-deutsch, cybernetics, political-science, backpropagation

Everything else

A 2006 chapter co-authored by Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner cites Eldredge & Gould (1972) by name, making policy-science punctuated-equilibrium theory's lineage a primary-pen citation and not only a secondary attestation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · punctuated-equilibrium, policy-change, political-science, citation-genealogy, baumgartner-jones
Does Baumgartner & Jones's own primary text cite Eldredge & Gould (1972) for punctuated-equilibrium theory, or does the lineage rest only on secondary characterization?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-26 · punctuated-equilibrium, policy-change, political-science, citation-genealogy, baumgartner-jones
Political science's punctuated-equilibrium theory of policy change genuinely traces to Eldredge & Gould (1972) by named citation, not borrowed vocabulary

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-24 · punctuated-equilibrium, policy-change, political-science, citation-genealogy, baumgartner-jones
Does Baumgartner & Jones's own primary text cite Eldredge & Gould (1972) for punctuated-equilibrium theory, or does the lineage rest only on secondary characterization?

question answered 2026-10-24 · punctuated-equilibrium, policy-change, political-science, citation-genealogy, baumgartner-jones
Outside biology, does 'punctuated equilibrium' have a genuine citation lineage in policy-change theory?

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-10-17 · punctuated-equilibrium, policy-change, political-science, citation-genealogy, baumgartner-jones
Karl Deutsch — Werbos's Harvard PhD advisor — wrote The Nerves of Government (1963), which in Werbos's account argues the political system is a neural-network system

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · karl-deutsch, werbos, cybernetics, political-science, nerves-of-government
Deutsch rescued Werbos's rejected PhD by handing him his own political-forecasting problem — and solving it under a compute budget is Werbos's own reason backpropagation got generalized to recurrent form

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · karl-deutsch, werbos, backpropagation, recurrent, beyond-regression
Karl Deutsch, Werbos's Harvard advisor, wrote political science's founding cybernetics text — and personally redirected the rejected Freud-into-math project into the thesis that generalized backpropagation

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-30 · werbos, karl-deutsch, cybernetics, political-science, backpropagation