Political Psychology

by Monroe, Kristen Renwick; Sears, David O.; Deutsch, Morton; Alford, C. Fred

• ISBN13: 9780805838862
• ISBN10: 0805838864
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

With a list of contributors that reads like a "Who's Who" of political psychology, this comprehensive volume introduces the major concepts, debates, and themes in the field and provides an overview of its intellectual development, its disparate parts, the major controversies and some suggestions for the future direction of the field.

Table of Contents

Political Psychology: An Overview	1	(15)
Kristen R. Monroe
PART I. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD
What Is Political Psychology?	15	(28)
Morton Deutsch
Catarina Kinnvall
Political Psychology as a Perspective in the Study of Politics	43	(18)
Margaret G. Hermann
Political Psychology: Origins and Development	61	(18)
Dana Ward
Psychological Political Science Versus Political Psychology True to Its Name: A Plea for Balance	79	(16)
Jon A. Krosnick
Kathleen M. McGraw
Political Psychology: A Personal View	95	(12)
George E. Marcus
Political Learning and Political Psychology: A Question of Norms	107	(14)
Janice Gross Stein
PART II. POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN RELATION TO OTHER FIELDS
Lost in Plain Sight: The Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology	121	(20)
Stanley A. Renshon
The Utility of Political Psychology	141	(10)
Martha Crenshaw
From Social to Political Psychology: The Societal Approach	151	(22)
Willem Doise
Christian Staerkle
The (Social) Psychological Legacy for Political Psychology	173	(20)
Daniel Bar-Tal
Group Psychology Is the State of Nature	193	(16)
C. Fred Alford
PART III. SPECIAL AREAS OF APPLICATION
Institutional Organization of Choice Spaces: A Political Conception of Political Psychology	209	(16)
Simon Jackman
Paul M. Sniderman
On-Line Versus Memory-Based Process Models of Political Evaluation	225	(24)
Howard Lavine
Long-Term Psychological Consequences of Political Events	249	(22)
David O. Sears
Crossing the Methodological and Disciplinary Divide: Political Stability, Political Change, and Research Method	271	(22)
Leonie Huddy
Signaling and Perception: Drawing Inferences and Projecting Images	293	(22)
Robert Jervis
PART IV. FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and Other Political Influences in Political Psychology	315	(14)
Peter Suedfeld
Reconstructing Political Psychology: Current Obstacles and New Direction	329	(38)
Shawn Rosenberg
Turning Political Psychology Upside Down	367	(18)
Robert E. Lane
An Intellectual Agenda for Political Psychology	385	(14)
David G. Winter
A Paradigm for Political Psychology	399	(18)
Kristen R. Monroe
Contributors	417	(8)
Author Index	425	(14)
Subject Index	439