I'm a shitty academic who's also based outside of the U.S. so I'm probably in no position to criticize, but the state of political science research today is use ever more complex methods to demonstrate ever more niche findings.
Stephen NuñezOver the last 20 plus years of attending academic conferences I've watched the assistant professor and graduate student presenters become increasingly more methodological sophisticated and the methods become increasingly complex. And it's hard to keep up.