Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to
one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective …

For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range
of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how …

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the
world. Scholarship has provided scant guidance about the prospects of containing the dark …

An emerging literature on civil and international conflict management is developing and
testing insights from formal theories of conflict. Third parties may attempt to prevent or …

With the discovery of voluminous discordant empirical evidence, maximizing expected utility
is rapidly disappearing as the core of the theory of human rationality, and a theory of …

Economists and biologists have proposed a distinction between two mechanisms–“strong”
and “weak” reciprocity–that may explain the evolution of human sociality. Weak reciprocity …

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie
and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on …

This article makes a case that collaborative planning is becoming more important because it
can result in network power. Collaborative policy processes are increasingly in use as ways …

What does it take to move a society from an inefficient equilibrium, characterized by low
social capital, distrust and inefficient legal and political institutions, to the opposite situation …