Of course, it is always a good idea to let the reader know that you have full command of the facts. But throwing in lots of irrelevant information without addressing the question at hand is never helpful. The Sanitary Engineer has accumulated a great deal of information, and his ability to recall it all is certainly impressive. The Jargon-Meister attempts to blind the reader with science. Using an array of political science terms most of which he probably doesn t understand he hopes to lull the reader into a state of social science ecstasy.
Rationality is an exogenous component of selective incentives.
As such, and in direct contradiction to the concept of endogenizing preferences, actors cannot be truly rational unless they have engaged in side-payments to rotating credit organizations. The Jargon-Meister appears to make an argument and a forceful one at that. But once you peel away the terminology, you realize that there is not much content to the essay at all. Evaluate Theda Skocpol s argument on the origins of social revolutions. While Theda Skocpol makes many interesting and important arguments about the origins of social revolutions, the concept of political culture is also extremely relevant.