Jonathan Matthew Smucker

In July I wrote a four-part series elucidating parts of a theory of political behavior. This here is a landing page for that series. Here are the parts:

1. A theory of political behavior
2. Evolutionary logic of identity
3. Political dimension of group identity
4. Imagined communities & populist alignment

And here are a few “companion” posts that aren’t officially part of the series, but they relate:

• A working philosophy of social science
• The problem of collective action in the United States
• What is hegemonic struggle?
• Anatomy of populist hegemonic alignment (part 1)
• Anatomy of populist hegemonic alignment (part 2)