Political science and beyond: Presidential address to the

September 2, 2007.The theme is that the discipline of political science has benefited from imports frommany other fields, but it also has a lot to offer in the way of exports to other fields. A personal example is the export of cooperation theory to cancer research.The main recommendation is to cultivate your curiosity by: reading up in a variety of fields so your mind will be well prepared, teaming up with others who can help you, loading up on research related to your problem, and lightening up when you need to escape from the problem for a while. Promising opportunities exist for political science to export to public health, cognitive and neuropsychol-ogy, and the design of web-based institutions. I ’d like to talk about one of my favorite subjects, inter-disciplinary research. It’s especially appropriate at thisAnnual Meeting whose theme is also “Political Science and Beyond. ” In fact, more than 300 participants at this meeting are from “beyond ” political science, and they come from more than 30 different disciplines. As you know, political scientists have a long and hon-orable tradition of importing ideas from other disciplines such as psychology, history, sociology, and economics. But historically, political science has not done as much export-ing as we have importing. What I’d like to suggest today i