David C. Kimball*, Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, Beth L. Leech and Bryce Summary Department of Political Science, University of Missouri–St. Louis, One University Blvd., 347 SSB, St Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA. Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Campus Box 3265, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265, USA. Department of Political Science, Tufts University...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

Patick T. Brandt is a Visiting Lecturer in Political Science, Indiana University, Woodburn Hall 210, Bloomington, IN 47405 ([email protected]). John T. Williams is Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Woodburn Hall 210, Bloomington, IN 47405 ([email protected]). Benjamin O. Fordham is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New Yor...

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...

This is the Presidential Address delivered at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 30 to September 2, 2007.The theme is that the discipline of political science has benefited from imports from many other fields, but it also has a lot to offer in the way of exports to other fields. A personal example is the export of cooperation theory to cancer research...