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Does anyone know anything about Bayesian statistics in academic political science? To put it mildly, political science has quite a number of open questions, and last I checked all of the statistical analysis in the field was frequentist. Political scientists spend a good chunk of their time sniping each other for getting the super-advanced frequentist statistics wrong. Maybe there's some room for basic Bayesian statistics to do some useful work?
Andrew Gelman springs to mind.
Yes, that fits the bill! Looks like a good thinker and a strong writer, too. Know anyone in comparative or international politics?
Alas, no. I know of Gelman because of his Bayesian stats textbook, not because of his political science background. You could email and ask him directly -- he's been responsive to emails from me and sometimes posts emails from others and his responses to his blog.
The sniping is called "training".