The Institute’s directors declined to hire legal and political specialists full-time.

Evidence

The Institute’s directors made no effort to recruit the assistance of a specialist historian; nor did they offer full-time employment to Neumann or Kirchheimer, who were qualified academic specialists in law, government and politics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 918

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the broader pattern of the Institute’s personnel strategy and its prioritization of philosophy over empirical social science.