The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology

by Capelos, Tereza; Kinnvall, Catarina; Nesbitt-Larking, Paul; Dekker, Henk

• ISBN13: 9781137291172
• ISBN10: 1137291176
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This ground-breaking collection recalibrates the study of political psychology by providing a detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's most important and hotly contested issues.

Advancing our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that drive political phenomena, this study showcases a range of approaches in the study of these phenomena in Europe and the world and underscores the valuable contribution political psychology has made in generating answers to timely research questions.

Individual chapters from the world's top experts in the field explores the ways in which political psychology impacts on issues as diverse as migration, conflict and violence as well as electoral politics while also situating the discipline within the realm of political decision-making and policy on important debates relating to foreign policy and relations, political participation and terrorism amongst a variety of other issues.

Furthermore, the collection offers analytical illustrations of Social Identity Theory, psychoanalytic approaches, Dialogical Self Theory, Social Representations Theory and Self-Categorisation Theory, allowing for an in-depth engagement across theoretical contributions to the field.

Using theoretical and methodological approaches in conjunction with empirical evidence, this Handbook maps the diverse field of political psychology in its entirety and explores its future direction. The resulting volume is a KEY addition to the libraries of all those who study or harbour an interest in political psychology.

Author Biography

Paul Nesbitt-Larking is Professor of Political Science at Huron University College, Canada. His recent publications include Politics, Society, and the Media (2009), the Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West (2011) as well as numerous academic articles and chapters. He is President-elect of the International Society of Political Psychology.

Henk Dekker is Professor of Political Socialization and Integration and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, the Netherlands and co-chair of the ECPR Political Psychology Standing Group. His research focuses on explaining citizens' political behavior and orientations, including voting behavior, political knowledge, political cynicism, nationalism, and attitudes towards ethnic minorities, including Islamophobia, and attitudes towards foreign countries and international cooperation.

Tereza Capelos is Senior Lecturer in Political Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK, Vice President of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Co-Chair of the ECPR Political Psychology Standing Group, and Director of the ISPP Summer Academy. She examines the affective and cognitive determinants of political judgments, and specializes in reputation formation and management, political scandals and accountability, and emotions in times of crisis.

Catarina Kinnvall is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. She is also the former Vice-President of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). Her research interests involve political psychology, migration and multiculturalism, globalization, religion and nationalism, with a particular focus on South Asia and Europe.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction: Origins, Developments and Current Trends; Tereza Capelos, Henk Dekker, Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking

PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES

2. Social Representations and the Politics of Participation; Caroline Howarth, Eleni Andreouli and Shose Kessi
3. Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorisation Theory; Denis Sindic and Susan Condor
4. Psychoanalysis as Political Political Psychology; Stephen Frosh
5. Methodological Approaches in Political Psychology: Discourse and Narrative; Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki
6. Dialogical Approaches to Psychology and Ethics; Sarah Scuzzarello
7. Experiments: Insights and Power in the Study of Causality; Tereza Capelos

PART III: THEMES
8. Lessons from the Postcolony: Frantx Fanon, Psychoanalysis and a Psychology of Political Critique; Ross Truscott and Derek Hook
9. Conflict Analysis and International Relations; Karin Aggestam
10. 'Do the Terrorists have Goatee Beards?': Contemporary Understandings of Terrorisms and the Terrorist; James McAuley
11. Gender, Race and Ethnic Relations; Sebastian E. Bartos and Peter Hegarty
12. Voting and Not Voting: The Principal Explanations; Henk Dekker

PART IV: HOT ISSUES

13. Political Emotions; Nicolas Demertzis
14. Group-Focused Enmity: Prevalence, Correlations and Causes of Prejudices in Europe; Beate Küpper and Andreas Zick
15. Political Psychology of European Integration; Ian Manners
16. Migration and Multiculturalism; Paul Nesbitt-Larking
17. Political and Civic Participation among Ethnic Majority and Minority Youth; Dimitra Pachi, Theopisti Chrysanthaki and Martyn Barrett
18. Fear, Insecurity and the (Re) Emergence of the Far Right in Europe; Catarina Kinnvall
19. A Political Psychology of Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland; Neil Ferguson, Orla Muldoon and Shelley McKeown
20. Narrating Moments of Political Change; Molly Andrews
21. The Culture of Conflict and its Routinisation; Daniel Bar-Tal, Guy Abutul Selinger and Amiram Raviv
22. Narrative Constructions of Conflict and Coexistence: The Case of Bosnia-Hezegovina; Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
23. Political Socialisation and Social Movements: Escaping the Political Past? Igor Petrovic, JAcquelien van Stekelenberg and Bert Klandermans

PART V: CONCLUSION

24. Ideology, Society and the State: Global Political Psychology in Retrospect; Paul Nesbitt-Larking