"U.S. policy on world resources and population underwent a drastic shift between the 1970s and 1980s. Underlying this shift were deep and persistent divisions among social scientists and policy scientists who are students of the global resource scarcity hypothesis. This article consists of a brief review of the history of the debate between those who believe that resources are becoming increa...

In the pre-economic reform era, the question of scientific and technological development in India had a central role in the general debate on the country’s development strategy, whether in policy-oriented discussions, in academic considerations or in discussions in the public and political arena. Unusually, compared to several other contentious issues, science and technology was the subject of ...

The American Political Science Review recently published a critique of an article we published in the Journal of Politics in 2008. In that article we showed that variants of the genes 5HTT and MAOA were significantly associated with voter turnout in a sample of 2,300 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Here, we address the critique first by conducting a replicati...