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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
Description: In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea TalabĂ©r (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University) to discuss his new book with CEU Press entitled, The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics (CEU Press, 2024).Putting the âscienceâ back into political science, The Political Brain shows how fMRI-scans can identify differences between liberals and conservatives, can predict our behaviour, and can explain the biology of uprisings, revolutions, and wars. The book also provides an overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge of the organ that shapes our politics. It warns that if we rel...