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'James H. Fowler' (born February 18, 1970) is an American political scientist who specializes in social networks, cooperation, and political participation. He earned a Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1992, a Masters degree in International Relations from Yale University in 1997, and a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2003. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 1992 to 1994.
Fowler is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his work on social networks, particularly his study of the spread of obesity in the Framingham Heart Study published in the ''New England Journal of Medicine''.
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He has also studied the network of legislative cosponsorships in the U.S. Congress,
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the network of U.S. Supreme Court precedents,
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and the network of PhD placements and citations in academia.
Fowler is also known for his work on egalitarianism
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and the evolution of cooperation
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which has appeared in ''Nature'' and ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', with related work on altruism and political participation
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Selected Publications

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1. "Are Friends And Family Making You Fat?" ''CBS Evening News'', July 25, 2007.
2. "Study Says Obesity Can Be Contagious." ''New York Times'', July 25, 2007.
3. "Inside the Beltway." ''Washington Times'', April 13, 2005.
4. "In Session: Congress." ''Washington Post'', April 11, 2005.
5. "Primary Sources", ''The Atlantic'', December 2005.
6. "Statistical Modeling: The Wisdom of Hercules." ''The Economist'', Aug 25, 2005.
7. "The Robin Hood impulse," The Daily Telegraph (LONDON), (12 April 2007) p.8.
8. "Making the Paper: James Fowler," ''Nature'' 446, xiii (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/7137xiiia.
9. "Why We Need Nosy Parkers." ''U.S. News and World Report'', June 13, 2005.
10. "Groups Unite in Dislike of Freeloaders." ''National Public Radio'', April 6, 2006.
11. "Political Scientists Convene to Probe and Predict U.S. Elections." ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', September 17, 2004.

Selected Publications

★ "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," ''New England Journal of Medicine'' 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)

★ "Egalitarian Motives in Humans," ''Nature'' 446: 794-796, doi:10.1038/nature05651 (12 April 2007)

★ "Beyond the Self: Altruism, Social Identity, and Political Participation," ''Journal of Politics'' 69 (3): 811-825 (August 2007)

★ ''Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future'', Temple University Press (2007)

★ "Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks," ''Political Analysis'' 14 (4): 456-487 (Fall 2006)

★ "Legislative Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. House and Senate," ''Social Networks'' 28 (4): 454-465 (October 2006)

★ "Altruism and Turnout," ''Journal of Politics'' 68 (3): 674-683 (August 2006)

★ "Habitual Voting and Behavioral Turnout," ''Journal of Politics'' 68 (2): 335-344 (May 2006)

★ "Elections and Markets: The Effect of Partisan Orientation, Policy Risk, and Mandates on the Economy," ''Journal of Politics'' 68 (1): 89-103 (February 2006)

★ "Second Order Free Riding Problem Solved?" ''Nature'' 437: doi:10.1038/nature04201 (22 September 2005)

★ "Altruistic Punishment and the Origin of Cooperation," ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' 102 (19): 7047-7049 (10 May 2005)

★ "Dynamic Responsiveness in the US Senate," ''American Journal of Political Science'' 49 (2): 299-312 (April 2005)

★ "Egalitarian Motive and Altruistic Punishment," ''Nature'' 433: doi:10.1038/nature03256 (06 January 2005)

★ "Dynamic Parties and Social Turnout: An Agent-Based Model," ''American Journal of Sociology'' 110 (4): 1070-1094 (January 2005)

★ "Turnout in a Small World," in Alan Zuckerman, ed., ''Social Logic of Politics'', Temple University Press, 269-287 (2005)

External links

★ UCSD Political Science Department faculty

★ SSRN page with papers by James Fowler

★ Personal webpage for James Fowler

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