Leo S. Launitz-Schurer’s scientific contributions

... Instead of uncovering new, durable, systematic patterns , as is the case in most other quantitative subfields of political science (and public health, of which this field is also a part [King and Murray 2000]), students of international conflict are left wrestling with their data to eke out something they can label a finding. As a consequence, those with deep qualitative knowledge of the subject are rarely persuaded by conclusions from quantitative works (see Bueno de Mesquita 1981; Geller and Singer 1998; Levy 1989; Rosenau 1976; Vasquez 1993). The field has a number of important successes to its credit, such as the democratic peace, and many important and very promising research programs , but the discontinuity between the beliefs of most experts and many quantitative results remains. ...

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Improving Quantitative Studies of International Conflict: A Conjecture