A. Somit

Human Nature and Public Policy

An Evolutionary Approach

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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. As our conceptualizations of humanbehavior switch from one that says human behavior is a product of culture(through learning and socialization) to one that claims that behavior isthe outcome of both cultyre and genetics and biology, it is necessary for public policy to change as well. The contributors in this volume examine what happens when it is no longer possible to base policy solely on… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Peterson, S.

ISBN: 978-1-4039-6285-0
EAN: 9781403962850
Produktnummer: 1756319
Verlag: Palgrave USA
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 266 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 359 g
Auflage: 2003 ed
Abbildungen: IX, 266 p.
Gewicht: 359

Über den Autor

ALBERT SOMIT is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University. He has been Executive Vice-President of the State University of New York at Buffalo and President of Southern Illinois University. One of the earliest pioneers in the field of biology and politics, he is the founder of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Biology and Politics.STEVEN A. PETERSON is Director of the School of Public Affairs and Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. His areas of research interest include American Politics, Public Policy, and the relationship of biology to politics. He is on the Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences and serves as Vice-President and Secretary of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Biology and Politics.DRS. SOMIT and PETERSON have 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, their highly controversial Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy (1997).