Albert Somit

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Albert Somit is affiliated with the following schools: University at Buffalo, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, University of Chicago, New York University

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Albert Somit

Political Science

#1525

World Rank

#1819

Historical Rank

#764

USA Rank

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Albert Somit's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Masters Political Science University of Chicago
Bachelors Political Science University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Albert Somit was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in biopolitics. He turned 100 in October 2019 and died in August 2020. Biography Somit was born in Chicago, Illinois in October 1919 but grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1941 and his Ph.D. in 1947. He served as a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 35 years, and as the university's executive vice president for the last 10 of them. On August 14, 1980, he became the 14th president of Southern Illinois University Carbondale . He stepped down from his position as president in 1987, whereupon the SIUC Board of Trustees named him a Distinguished Service Professor.

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Albert Somit's Published Works

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The development of American political science : from Burgess to behavioralism (1967) (117)
American political science : a profile of a discipline (1965) (58)
The Victorious Incumbent: A Threat to Democracy? (1994) (52)
The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences (1992) (50)
Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: The Biological Bases of Authoritarianism (1997) (46)
Methodological problems associated with a biologically-oriented social science (1978) (42)
Toward a More Biologically-Oriented Political Science: Ethology and Psychopharmacology (1968) (41)
Review Article: Biopolitics After Three Decades – A Balance Sheet (1998) (40)
The Effect of the Introductory Political Science Course on Student Attitudes Toward Personal Political Participation (1958) (32)
Rational Choice and Biopolitics: A (Darwinian) Tale of Two Theories (1999) (31)
The development of political science : from burgess to behavioralism (1969) (30)
Biology and politics : recent explorations (1976) (30)
Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984 (1987) (29)
Review Article: Biopolitics (1972) (22)
Human Nature and Public Policy (2003) (20)
Humans, Chimps, and Bonobos (1990) (18)
Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach (2003) (17)
Birth order and political behavior (1995) (16)
Trends in American Political Science: Some Analytical Notes (1963) (15)
Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences: Toward a Better Understanding of Human Nature (2001) (15)
The political behavior of older American blacks. (1992) (14)
Cognitive Development and Childhood Political Socialization (1982) (14)
Political Socialization's Primacy Principle: A Biosocial Critique (1987) (14)
The Veteran in the Electoral Process: The House of Representatives (1957) (13)
The failure of democratic nation building : ideology meets evolution (2010) (13)
Human nature and politics (1995) (12)
The Political Behavior of Older Americans. (1995) (12)
Birth Order and Political Behavior: Clearing the Underbrush (1993) (11)
From Human Nature to Public Policy: Evolutionary Theory Challenges the “Standard Model” (2003) (10)
Hierarchy and democracy (1991) (10)
Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: a Reaffirmation (2001) (10)
Birth Order and British Prime Ministers: A Second Look (1994) (9)
Biology and Politics (2011) (9)
The Military Hero as Presidential Candidate (1948) (8)
Birth order as a factor in presidential selection and performance (1994) (8)
The Failure To Teach Political Activity (1963) (8)
Bad Times and the Political Behavior of Older African-Americans (1994) (7)
Biology and Politics: The Cutting Edge (2011) (7)
Political science and the study of the future (1974) (6)
Punctuated equilibrium: the view from the elephant (1989) (6)
Biopolitics: 1980–81 Update (1982) (6)
Biopolitics: a preliminary history. (1979) (6)
Introduction: Main Currents in Biopolitics (1987) (5)
Wilson's on Human Nature (1980) (5)
Biopolitics in 1982 (1983) (5)
Management Information Systems: Neither Paradise Lost nor Paradise Gained. (1979) (4)
Andrew Jackson as Administrator (1948) (4)
Bureaucratic Realpolitik and the Teaching of Administration (1956) (4)
Older women: Health and political behavior (1992) (4)
Birth order and political behavior: This time the female side (1997) (4)
Sociobiology and the preemption of social science: By Alexander Rosenberg. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, 240 pp., $16.50 (1981) (3)
Biopolitics and the mainstream: contributions of biology to political science (1994) (3)
The politics of peace in preindustrial societies : The adaptive rationale behind Corroboree and Calumet (1998) (3)
Biology and Politics: An Introduction (2013) (3)
Changing structures (2020) (3)
What hath biopolitics wrought? (2011) (3)
Biopolitics in 1983 (1984) (3)
What is biopolitics (2017) (2)
From Professor of Political Science to Professor Emeritus (1992) (2)
Biopolicy: The Life Sciences and Public Policy (2012) (2)
Politics and the Life Sciences: Current Research Questions and Teaching Biopolitics. (1989) (2)
Journal response time: A case for multiple submission (1996) (2)
Recent explorations in biology and politics (1997) (2)
1986: Boom Year for Biopolitics (1987) (2)
Indoctrinability as an evolutionary precondition for democracy (1996) (2)
Handbook of Biology and Politics (2017) (2)
Biopolitics in 1984 (1985) (2)
The Failure of Democratic Nation Building (2019) (1)
Crossing Intellectual Boundaries (1992) (1)
The World of Biology and Politics: Organization and Research Areas (2013) (1)
Biopolitics: Publication Patterns in 1987 (1988) (1)
The Political Behavior of American Blacks: A Research Note on Effects of Four Classes of Variables (2017) (1)
Biopolitics in 1985 (1986) (1)
Teaching Political Science: The Professor and the Polity . Edited by Van Dyke Vernon. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 179. $10.00.) (1979) (1)
Research methodology in biopolitics (2017) (1)
Authoritarian Government: The Default Option (2005) (0)
Methodological Problems Associated with a Biologically Oriented Social Science (2019) (0)
Democracy: The Requisite “Enabling Conditions” — No Small Order (2005) (0)
Graduate Education in Biology and Politics (2013) (0)
Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power. By Masters Roger D.. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. 366p. $32.95. (1998) (0)
A New Pattern in Politics (1956) (0)
The Fourth “Whereas” (2005) (0)
Comment by Albert Somit (1985) (0)
Biology and Politics as an Organizational Enterprise (2013) (0)
Evolution, Hierarchy, and Democracy : Iraq and Afghanistan (2014) (0)
Article Commentary (1974) (0)
The Politics of Evolutionary Theory and Biopolitics in the Future (2013) (0)
Evolutionary Folly: Evolution and Democratic Nation Building (2005) (0)
Darwinism and Democracy--An Odd Couple? (2017) (0)
Multiple Submissions: Worth Considering? (1995) (0)
Evolution, public goods, and the state (2007) (0)
Report from the Committee for Liaison with the International Political Science Association (1982) (0)
Review of Chimpanzee Politics (1984) (0)
Ratings and Rankings: Some Important But Slighted Aspects (1996) (0)
Darwinism Redux: An Alternative Explanation (1992) (0)
Born to Rebel: The Science of Birth Order (2000) (0)
Draft of a Proposal: Information Structures for Political Science (1969) (0)
Democratic Nation Building: From Concept to Operational “Checklist” (2005) (0)
American Political Sciences: A Profile of a Discipline. (1965) (0)
Biopolitics in 1988: Year of the Newcomer (1989) (0)
Excellence and Its Recognition: The Dissertation Awards in Political Science (1980) (0)
The Historical and Geopolitical Aspects of the Berlin Crisis (1961) (0)
A new synthesis? not quite (1981) (0)
American Nation Building, 1945–2005: Costs and Consequences (2005) (0)
Theory and Practice of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (1962) (0)
100th APSA Annual Meeting Attendees Offer Evaluations and Suggestions (2005) (0)
The crystal ball: biology, political science and biopolitics (2017) (0)
Human Nature and Political Conflict: a Biopolitical View (1985) (0)
"Just Say No": Abstinence-only Sex Education and Evolutionary Theory (2009) (0)
“Therefore Be It Resolved …”: Toward More Realistic Foreign and Domestic Policies (2005) (0)
Controversies in biology: implications for the study of biology and politics (2017) (0)
13. Keysort as a Tool for Political Research (1958) (0)
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND BIRTH ORDER (2008) (0)
Political Science and Biology: Then, Now, and Next (2020) (0)
Political philosophy: an evolutionary perspective (2017) (0)
Biopolicy: A Critical Linkage (2012) (0)
What is a Democracy?: Toward a Working Definition (2005) (0)
Review essay: Lynn and Vanhanen, IQ and Global Inequality (2008) (0)
Book review (1943) (0)
Will the Real Democracies Please Stand Up (2005) (0)
Reports of Two Key SSRC Committees: Back to the Drafting Board? (1975) (0)
American Politics (1987) (0)
Naked emperors By Garrett Hardin. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman (1985) (0)

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