Focuses on the development of the U.S. system of governance and political institutions, the relationship between these institutions and U.S. citizens, and the citizens' attitudes and behaviors.
Utilizes deductive, mathematical techniques and statistical methods to form and test theories, investigate political events and discover empirical generalizations.
Understanding social phenomena and individual behavior by combining the perspectives of political science and economics. This cross-disciplinary field uses analytical tools from game theory, microeconomics and statistics to study political