Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics
Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott
Abstract
This book brings together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including the comparative basis of political behavior, the utility of formal modeling informed by evolutionary theory, the genetic bases of attitudes and behaviors, psychophysiological methods and research, and the we ... More
This book brings together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including the comparative basis of political behavior, the utility of formal modeling informed by evolutionary theory, the genetic bases of attitudes and behaviors, psychophysiological methods and research, and the wealth of insight generated by recent research on the human brain. Through this approach, the book reveals the biological bases of many previously unexplained variances within the extant models of political behavior.
Keywords:
evolutionary theory,
biological research,
political behavior,
political attitudes,
formal modeling,
human brain,
theoretical framework,
methodological framework,
empirical framework
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226319094 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226319117.001.0001 |
