ABSTRACT
V.O. Key, Jr., one of the most renowned of all American political scientists, made the following assessment in his Presidential Address to the American Political Science Association in 1958:
The burden of my argument may be stated briefly and bluntly. It is that the demands upon our profession have grown more rapidly than has the content of our discipline. We are, in a sense, the victims of our own success. The achievements of our profession arouse expectations that our discipline enables us to meet only imperfectly. If we are to narrow the gap between our knowledge and our responsibilities, we must devote greater resources in manpower and ingenuity to the systematic analysis of the phenomena of politics. (Key 1958, p. 961)
