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Product Description: This volume describes (a) the present academic and institutional status of Biopolitics and (b) the wide range of research areas that have emerged within the field. The Introduction puts into perspective the major differences and similarities between Biopolitics and more traditional approaches to political science in terms of basic concepts, scope, research methodology, and the resulting implications for public policy...read more
By Albert Somit (editor)

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9781781907283 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, October 15, 2013, cover price $120.99 | About this edition: This volume describes (a) the present academic and institutional status of Biopolitics and (b) the wide range of research areas that have emerged within the field.

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By Albert Somit (editor)

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9781780528700 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, September 18, 2012, cover price $131.99

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By Steven A. Peterson (editor) and Albert Somit (editor)

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9781780528205 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, May 28, 2012, cover price $131.99

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Product Description: Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures...read more

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9781403967817 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree.

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9780230621121 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree.

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Product Description: It is generally agreed that human political and social behavior is the product of both "nature" (our genetic and physiological legacy as social primates) and "nurture" (culture, learning, and experience). Biopolitics is the field of political science which uses biological concepts (e...read more
By Albert Somit (editor)

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9783866492745 | Barbara Budrich Esser, September 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It is generally agreed that human political and social behavior is the product of both "nature" (our genetic and physiological legacy as social primates) and "nurture" (culture, learning, and experience).

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Product Description: The essays in this collection explore the implications that the growing challenge from "evolutionary" concepts of human nature have in various policyareas and show what must be done to ensure that policies conform to humanbehavior and its limits for change...read more
By Albert Somit (editor)

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9781403961167 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 4, 2003, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: The essays in this collection explore the implications that the growing challenge from "evolutionary" concepts of human nature have in various policyareas and show what must be done to ensure that policies conform to humanbehavior and its limits for change.

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9781403962850 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 4, 2003, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Arguing for an evolutionary perspective, this book directly challenges the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) on which public policy has often been based.

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Product Description: "Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences" examines perhaps the single most important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences - the emergence of a group of practitioners who advocate 'a more biologically oriented' approach to their discipline's subject matter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Steven A. Peterson (editor) and Albert Somit (editor)

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9780762307692 | Jai, April 1, 2001, cover price $162.99 | About this edition: "Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences" examines perhaps the single most important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences - the emergence of a group of practitioners who advocate 'a more biologically oriented' approach to their discipline's subject matter.

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Product Description: Somit and Peterson seek to explain two apparently contradictory yet well-established political phenomena: First, throughout human history, the vast majority of political societies have been authoritarian. Second, notwithstanding this pattern, from time to time, democracies do emerge and some even have considerable stability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275958176 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 1997, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Somit and Peterson seek to explain two apparently contradictory yet well-established political phenomena: First, throughout human history, the vast majority of political societies have been authoritarian.

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Product Description: Part of a series presenting research in biopolitics. This fourth volume contains essays by various contributors on topics such as nonparticipant observational research methods, visual recording methods, hemispheric dominance and elite behaviour, and a case study of Clinton's inaugural address...read more
By Steven A. Peterson (editor) and Albert Somit (editor)

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9780762300396 | Jai Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Part of a series presenting research in biopolitics.

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Product Description: This book provides a careful examination of the possible influence of birth order on political achievement and behavior. The authors look at American presidents, Supreme Court justices, United States senators and representatives, and the careers of an entire West Point class...read more

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9780761801337 | Univ Pr of Amer, February 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book provides a careful examination of the possible influence of birth order on political achievement and behavior.

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9780761801344 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 1, 1996, cover price $53.99 | About this edition: This book provides a careful examination of the possible influence of birth order on political achievement and behavior.

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Product Description: This is the third volume in a series on research in biopolitics. This volume covers such topics as human nature being the central issue in political philosophy and democracy as an endangered "species".
By Joseph Losco (editor) and Albert Somit (editor)

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9781559388665 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, October 1, 1995, cover price $112.95 | About this edition: This is the third volume in a series on research in biopolitics.

Product Description: This is the second volume in a series on research in biopolitics. This volume covers such topics as biology and politics - political, practical and philosophical issues and research methods derived from the life science.

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9781559384407 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $112.95 | About this edition: This is the second volume in a series on research in biopolitics.

Product Description: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780815313212 | Garland Pub, August 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1994.

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Product Description: This work examines the extent to which the electoral success of incumbent legislators poses a threat to democratic government in nine countries: Canada; Denmark; France; Germany; Great Britain; Israel; Japan; New Zealand; and the United States.

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9781855215146 | Dartmouth Pub Co, March 1, 1994, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This work examines the extent to which the electoral success of incumbent legislators poses a threat to democratic government in nine countries: Canada; Denmark; France; Germany; Great Britain; Israel; Japan; New Zealand; and the United States.

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Product Description: An international gathering of scholars examines democratic theory in the light of recent discoveries by biologists, ethologists, and psychologists.In this book contributors do not attempt to find a single solution to the theoretical problem of the existence of "elites" in a democratic system, but to make a serious approach to examining various aspects of that problem...read more
By Albert Somit (editor), Rudolf Widenmann (editor) and Rudolf Wildenmann (editor)

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9780809317912 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: An international gathering of scholars examines democratic theory in the light of recent discoveries by biologists, ethologists, and psychologists.

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Product Description: This is an interesting and comprehensive survey of the original punctuated equilibrium question. And includes chapters by Ernst Mayr, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven M. Stanley, Niles Eldredge, Antoni Hoffman and many more.

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9780801425318 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is an interesting and comprehensive survey of the original punctuated equilibrium question.

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9780801497636 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: VERY-GOOD TRADE-PAPERBACK.

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Product Description: This is the first volume in a series on research in biopolitics. Topics covered by this volume include biology, politics and feminism; evolutionary biosocial sexual differences; and biosocial sexual development.

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9781559380966 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, October 1, 1991, cover price $112.95 | About this edition: This is the first volume in a series on research in biopolitics.

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9780829001228, titled "Development of American Political Science: From Burgess to Behavioralism" | Enl sub edition (Irvington Pub, November 1, 1982), cover price $28.50

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9780829001235 | Irvington Pub, June 1, 1982, cover price $12.95

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