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Albert Somit

Related: Foreign Policy & Diplomacy, International Relations, Political Behavior, Politics of Developing Nations, Public Policy and Local Government, Social Psychology

Albert Somit is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University. He has served as Executive Vice-President of SUNY-Buffalo and President of Southern Illinois University. He is a pioneer of biopolitics and founder of the International Political Science Association's research Committee on Biology and Politics. He co-authored or co-edited such volumes as Evolutionary Theory and the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), Research in Biopolitics (1996), The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences (1992), and, of course, the highly controversial Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy (1997).

Works

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The Failure of Democratic Nation Building

Ideology Meets Evolution

Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson
Palgrave Macmillan

In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political...

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Human Nature and Public Policy

An Evolutionary Approach

Edited By Albert Somit and Steven Peterson
Palgrave Macmillan

The essays in this collection explore the implications that the growing challenge from "evolutionary" concepts of human nature have in various policyareas and...

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