Editing Political science (section)

===21st century===
In 2000, the [[Perestroika Movement]] in political science was introduced as a reaction against what supporters of the movement called the mathematicization of political science. Those who identified with the movement argued for a plurality of methodologies and approaches in political science and for more relevance of the discipline to those outside of it.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veelUVVHg8MC |title=Perestroika!: The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science |date= 2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300130201 |language=en |access-date=24 May 2016 |archive-date=20 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820003122/https://books.google.com/books?id=veelUVVHg8MC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Some [[evolutionary psychology]] theories argue that humans have evolved a highly developed set of psychological mechanisms for dealing with politics. However, these mechanisms evolved for dealing with the small group politics that characterized the ancestral environment and not the much larger political structures in today's world. This is argued to explain many important features and systematic [[cognitive bias]]es of current politics.<ref name="AEP">Michael Bang Petersen. "The evolutionary psychology of mass politics". In {{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=S.C. |title=Applied Evolutionary Psychology |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0199586073 |editor-last=Roberts |editor-first=S. Craig |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586073.001.0001}}</ref>