History of Media Studies

In this session, we will read Robert Dahl's “The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest” (1961) and Fenwick McKelvey's “The Modelled American Voter,” draft chapter of VOTER_MACHINE_WORLD: America’s Quest for Computer Models of Elections and  World Affairs. (Note: Also included is the introduction to book section that the draft chapter will appear in. We plan to discuss the entire chapter as well as this introduction, but given the document’s length we will foreground the first of the three models discussed (pages 2 to 18 in the chapter draft) in our discussion.)