Methodological Problems
One might excuse the researchers if they erred due to rapid change. Social science, like any
science, reasons based on data from the past. Many conditions favorable to reform suddenly came
together in the 1990s, in a synergy that no scholar could have foreseen. Even conservative experts
failed to anticipate all that reform might achieve. Unfortunately, the mistakes were also rooted in the
methodological features of the social sciences, as they have recently developed