Political psychology : cultural and crosscultural foundations / edited by Stanley A. Renshon and John Duckitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renshon, Stanley Allen.

Duckitt, J. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political psychology--Cross-cultural studies.

Political psychology.

Local Subjects:

Political psychology--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Military force transforms political institutions, branches of government continually battle for power and position, leaders rise and leaders fall, but the key to the dynamics of these phenomena -- the psychology of our political leaders, and that underlying most political processes -- remains one of the most understudied aspects of political life. New political forces, such as the trend toward globalization, have resulted in an ever growing need to understand the relationship between psychology, culture and politics.

Drawing together essays by an international group of scholars from the fields of psychology, anthropology and political science, Political Psychology explores how cultural and political psychology shapes a wide range of contemporary issues. Whether addressing societies and cultures comparatively, as in the cases of South America or Eastern Europe, or examining countries such as Japan and South Africa in isolation, the scholars gathered broach such issues as international and cross-cultural conflicts, cultural diversity, human rights, social stratification, and cultural shifts in the course of political changes. By revealing how individual and public psychology alike intersect with politics and culture, Political Psychology analyzes the complex relationships that arise, and provides the conceptual means for effecting lasting social change.

Contents:

Cultural and crosscultural political psychology: revitalizing a founding tradition for a new subfield / Stanley A. Renshon and John Duckitt

The elusive concept of culture and the vivid reality of personality / Lucian W. Pye

The relevance of culture for the study of political psychology / Marc Howard Ross

Taboo trade offs: constitutive prerequisites for political and social life / Alan Page Fiske and Philip E. Tetlock

Substance and method in cultural and crosscultural political psychology / Stanley A. Renshon ... [et al.]

Culture, personality and prejudice / John Duckitt

The political culture of state authoritarianism / Jos. D. Meloen

Conflict and injustice in intercultural relations: insights from the Arab-Israeli and Sino-British disputes / Kwok Leung and Walter G. Stephan

Culture and ethnic conflict / Marc Howard Ross

The political unconscious: stories and politics in two South American cultures / Allen Johnson

Cultural nationalism and beyond: crosscultural political psychology in Japan / Ofer Feldman

Change, continuity and culture: the case of power relations in Iran and Japan / Fathali M. Moghaddam and David Crystal

Value adaptation to the imposition and collapse of communist regimes in East-Central Europe / Shalom H. Schwartz, Anat Bardi and Gabriel Bianchi

Social authority and minority status: problems of internalization and alienation among Japanese and Koreans in diverse cultural settings / George A. De Vos

Multicultural policy and social psychology: the Canadian experience / J.W. Berry and Rudolf Kalin

American character and national identity: the dilemmas of cultural diversity / Stanley A. Renshon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814775365

0814775373

OCLC:

41118829