Politics are ubiquitous in social life, shaping all manner ofinteractions in so many spheres of human activity. From theplayground to the retirement community, from the marketplace to thehalls of government, from families to the global economy, we areconstantly engaged in political struggles large and small. Politicalscience, in turn, has long been fundamentally interdisciplinary,exchanging ideas, theories, data, and methods with fields fromanthropology to zoology;mo;usb;mc; – and everything in between. Aspolitical science has become a more self-conscious discipline, ithas simultaneously grown more aware of its intellectual debts andon-going contributions to cognate fields of study. The103rdAnnual Meeting of the American Political Science Associationwill celebrate the interdisciplinary nature of political scienceand highlight new opportunities for intellectual exchange acrossdisciplinary boundaries.