Oleg Smirnov is an assistant professor of political science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University). His research and teaching interests include formal political theory, computational and agent-based modeling, experimental economics, and evolutionary dynamics. His family photo album is here.

Mandates, parties, and voters: How elections shape the future
    James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
   Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2007)

On the origin of prospect theory preferences
    Rose McDermott, James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
    Journal of Politics 70(2): 335-350 (April 2008)

Ancestral war and the evolutionary origins of 'heroism'
   [supplementary information]
    Oleg Smirnov, Holly Arrow, Douglas Kennett, John Orbell
    Journal of Politics 69(4): 927-940 (November 2007)

Altruistic punishment in politics and life sciences
    Oleg Smirnov
    Perspectives on Politics 5(3): 489-501 (September 2007)

Egalitarian motives in humans
   [supplementary information]
    Christopher T Dawes, James H Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, Oleg Smirnov
    Nature 446: 794-796 (12 April 2007)

Policy-motivated parties in dynamic political competition
    Oleg Smirnov, James H Fowler
    Journal of Theoretical Politics 19(1): 9-31 (January 2007)

Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment
    James H Fowler, Tim Johnson, Oleg Smirnov
    Nature 433, DOI: 10.1038/nature03256 (06 January 2005)

Dynamic parties and social turnout: an agent-based model
    James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
    American Journal of Sociology 110(4): 1070-1094 (January 2005)