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- ISSN: 0730-9384 (Print), 1471-5457 (Online)
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Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS) is a biannual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with a global audience. PLS is the official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (APSA) Related Group and an American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Member Society. PLS publishes original scholarly research at the intersection of political science and the life sciences. The topic range includes evolutionary and laboratory insights into political behavior, from decision-making to leadership, cooperation, and competition; evolutionary analysis of political intolerance and violence, from group conflict to warfare, terrorism, and torture; political and political-economic analysis of life-sciences research, health policy, agricultural and environmental policy, and biosecurity policy; philosophical analysis of bioethical controversies; and historical analysis of currently misunderstood issues at the intersection of the social and biological sciences. Contributors include political scientists, political psychologists, life scientists, clinicians, health-policy scholars, bioethicists, biosecurity and international-security experts, environmental scientists and ecological economists, moral and evolutionary philosophers, political and environmental historians, communications and public-opinion researchers, and legal scholars.
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Cambridge Politics blog
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Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: When “good/bad cops” are strategies for policy innovation, not personalities
- 17 April 2024,
- Since its inception, public administration has been rich with stories of frontline officials, often portraying the complex interplay between the perceived “good...
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Conversations with Authors: Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences
- 10 April 2024,
- In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR author Anne-Kathrin Kreft about her open access article, co-authored with Mattias Agerberg,“Imperfect...
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Biodiversity, multi-level governance and policy implementation in Europe: a comparative analysis at the subnational level
- 03 April 2024,
- International efforts to protect biodiversity date back to the 1970s in the form of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and regional legal instruments like...
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