Political Species: The Evolution and Diversity of Private Organizations in Politics

Political Species expertly argues that evolutionary biology provides important insight for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute to societal, cultural, and political evolution through a range of formal organizations.

Karsten Ronit is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has broad competence in the study of organized interests with special expertise in business and employer associations, civil society organizations, and other intermediary institutions. He takes an interest in the comparative aspects of politics and business and examines how business and civil society operate in different national contexts. He is also engaged in projects examining the behavior of business and civil society organizations at the international level. He has published in a number of international journals, contributed to many books, and more recently published the monographs Global Business Associations (Routledge, 2018) and The Governance of Global Industry Associations: The Role of Micro-Politics (Edward Elgar, 2022).