Oleg Smirnov is an associate professor of political science at Stony Brook University. His research and teaching interests include computational modeling, international security and political economy, formal theory, and behavioral economics. He is currently working on an NSF-funded computational model of international security and political economy consequences of climate change based upon the Community Earth System Model (CESM).
Teaching
POL 391: Politics of Climate Change. Spring 2012. Book list (in pdf).
Book
Mandates, parties, and voters: How elections shape the future
James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2007)
Book review in the Perspectives on Politics
Book review in the Political Science Quarterly
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
11. An alternative mechanism through which economic inequality facilitates collective action: wealth disparities as a sign of cooperativeness
Tim Johnson, Oleg Smirnov
Journal of Theoretical Politics - forthcoming
10. The behavioral logic of collective action: partisans cooperate and punish more than non-partisans
[online appendix]
Oleg Smirnov, Christopher T Dawes, James H Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath
Political Psychology 31(4): 595-616 (August 2010)
9. Endogenous choice of amendment agendas: types of voters and experimental evidence
Oleg Smirnov
Public Choice 141(3-4): 277-290 (December 2009)
8. The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment
Tim Johnson, Christopher T Dawes, James H Fowler, Richard McElreath, Oleg Smirnov
Economics Letters 102(3): 192-194 (March 2009)
7. On the origin of prospect theory preferences
Rose McDermott, James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
Journal of Politics 70(2): 335-350 (April 2008)
6. 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)
5. Altruistic punishment in politics and life sciences
Oleg Smirnov
Perspectives on Politics 5(3): 489-501 (September 2007)
4. 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)
3.
Policy-motivated parties in dynamic political competition
Oleg Smirnov, James H Fowler
Journal of Theoretical Politics 19(1): 9-31 (January 2007)
2. Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment
James H Fowler, Tim Johnson, Oleg Smirnov
Nature 433, DOI: 10.1038/nature03256 (06 January 2005)
1.
Dynamic parties and social turnout: an agent-based model
James H Fowler, Oleg Smirnov
American Journal of Sociology 110(4): 1070-1094 (January 2005)