Political Behavior Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Session Submission Type: Virtual Roundtable

Session Description

Much of political science is conducted in bounded disciplines and defined by arbitrary geographical divisions. However, the study of political behavior, once largely limited to the United States, has begun to cross these boundaries. What are examples of how to do so successfully? How can the study of political behavior continue to break out of narrow confines? This round-table features authors speaking about recent books that not only contribute to a discipline but carry implications beyond one discipline. These books often embed behavior in context, and study it using systematic comparison across time and space. They integrate the analysis of individual behavior with the study of history, institutions, organizations, social forces, or political systems. The authors will discuss how their books explain important political phenomena and shed light on fundamental dynamics of human behavior. These books have been recently published by Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, a book series designed to set a cross-disciplinary agenda that integrates behavior into core questions in international relations, comparative politics, and American politics, blurring unnecessary lines of demarcation. The books include explorations of race and partisanship, resolve in international relations, envy in comparative politics, voters' departure from lofty standards of democracy, opposition to foreign trade, and authoritarianism in the Middle East.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Chair

• Tali Mendelberg Princeton University

Presenters

• Christopher H. Achen Princeton University

• Joshua D. Kertzer Harvard University

• Gwyneth McClendon New York University

• Diana C. Mutz University of Pennsylvania

• Elizabeth R. Nugent Yale University

• Ismail K. White Princeton University

• Maya Sen Harvard University