This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of authors from various parts of this sprawling and pluralistic discipline has each contributed a brief essay about a single novel or insufficiently appreciated idea on some aspect of political science. The one hundred essays are concise, no more than a few pages apiece, and informal. While the contributions are highly diverse, readers can find unexpected connections across the volume, tracing echoes as well as diametrically opposed points of view. This book offers compelling points of departure for everyone who is concerned about political science -- whether as a scholar, teacher, student, or interested reader.

Introduction
The United States: A Different Democracy
Taking Portraits or Group Photos?
Why Political Theorists Should Think More Carefully About Leadership
The Leadership Gap
Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the Emergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience
Politicians are People, too
Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History
Representation as a Field of Study
Political Science: What Should We Know?
Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power
Politics as Learning
Rounding Up the Activists
The Troubling Persistence of Injustice
Making a Name for Oneself
Political Variation across Contexts
Homo Politicus is Not an Island
The Sociological Bases of Political Preferences and Behavior
Community Social Capital
Tuned In, But Dropped Out
Cognition, Emotion and Selectivity in Political Communication in a Multi-Facetted World, Rational Choice and Political Culture
Who Wants War?
The Threat to Democracy
Nationalist Missions and the Democratic Citizen
Something's Going On Here, but We Don't Know What It Is: Measuring Citizens' Exposure to Politically-Relevant Information in the New Media Environment
What We Still Need to Know Why and How People Become Committed Democrats
When We Could Do So Much Better: Democratic Commitment and Empirical Political Psychology
Political Science and the Future
Family Matters
Where do the Premises of Political Choice Come From?
Immigration, Partisanship and Electoral Change
Decisions People Make in Small Groups
Why Do (Some) People Acquire Costly Political Knowledge?
A Political View of Political Ideology
Guess What? Voters are Smart
Extra! Extra! Extra Info Needed with Survey Reporting
What Should Journalists and Politicians Know? Beyond the Margin of Error
The Need for Survey Reporting Standards in Political Science
The Changing Evidence Base of Political Science Research
FMRI and Public Opinion Research
Special Interest Politics
An Ever Fainter Voice
Exploring Political Inequality
Voice, and Then What?
The Impact of Unequal Political Participation on Policy Outcome
Participation Matters
Participatory Distortion ($$) Takes Off!!
The Rashomon World of Money and Politics
Does Rising Economic Inequality Matter
Redistribution without Representation and Representation without Redistribution
The Ideological Origins of Redistribution
Reuniting Interests and Values
Using Research to Foster Democracy
"Moral Convictions, Religion, and Diversity: Our Political Atmosphere
Equality and Inclusiveness, Diversity and Conflict
The End of 'the Protestant Nation'
The Political Force of Group Consciousness
Going Global: New challenges and opportunities in research on democratic participation and the civic culture
The Effects of Immigration and Sending Countries Outreach on American Public Opinion and<$$$>
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