Thinking About Political Psychology

by Edited by James H. Kuklinski

• ISBN13: 9780521593779
• ISBN10: 0521593778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Some of the leading scholars in political psychology discuss and debate some of the major issues in the field. Scholars define the boundaries of the field, debate its relevance, consider whether the field is, methodologically, too individualistic and consider whether the field can help scholars to understand collective public opinion.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction: Political Psychology and the Study of Politics	1	(22)
James H. Kuklinski
Part I: Defining Political Psychology
The Contours of Political Psychology: Situating Research on Political Information Processing	23	(28)
John L. Sullivan
Wendy M. Rahn
Thomas J. Rudolph
Part II: Theory and Research
Who Can Persuade Whom? Implications from the Nexus of Psychology and Rational Choice Theory	51	(38)
Arthur Lupia
Expanding the Envelope: Citizenship, Contextual Methodologies, and Comparative Political Psychology	89	(26)
Pamela Johnson Conover
Donald D. Searing
The Challenges of Political Psychology: Lessons to Be Learned from Research on Attitude Perception	115	(40)
Jon A. Krosnick
Part III: The Psychology--Politics Nexus
Political Psychology and Political Science	155	(32)
Wendy M. Rahn
John L. Sullivan
Thomas J. Rudolph
Is Political Psychology Sufficiently Psychological? Distinguishing Political Psychology from Psychological Political Science	187	(30)
Jon A. Krosnick
Political Psychology, Political Behavior, and Politics: Questions of Aggregation, Causal Distance, and Taste	217	(36)
Robert C. Luskin
Part IV: Political Psychology and Aggregate Opinion
The Micro Foundations of Mood	253	(28)
James A. Stimson
From Denial to Extenuation (and Finally Beyond): Political Sophistication and Citizen Performance	281	(25)
Robert C. Luskin
Political Psychology and the Micro-Macro Gap in Politics	306	(33)
Michael Mackuen
Index	339