Biology and political science

Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.9780415204361, 0415204364

This book demonstrates the increasing convergence of interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of the life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, reviews the growing literature in biopolitics, and presents a coherent view of biopolitics as a framework for structuringinquiry across the current subfields of political science.