Political psychology / edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monroe, Kristen Renwick, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political psychology.

Physical Description:

vii, 456 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002.

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.

Contents:

Political Psychology: An Overview / Kristen R. Monroe 1

Part I. Political Psychology: An Overview of the Field

1 What Is Political Psychology? / Morton Deutsch, Catarina Kinnvall 15

2 Political Psychology as a Perspective in the Study of Politics / Margaret G. Hermann 43

3 Political Psychology: Origins and Development / Dana Ward 61

4 Psychological Political Science Versus Political Psychology True to Its Name: A Plea for Balance / Jon A. Krosnick, Kathleen M. McGraw 79

5 Political Psychology: A Personal View / George E. Marcus 95

6 Political Learning and Political Psychology: A Question of Norms / Janice Gross Stein 107

Part II. Political Psychology in Relation to Other Fields

7 Lost in Plain Sight: The Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology / Stanley A. Renshon 121

8 The Utility of Political Psychology / Martha Crenshaw 141

9 From Social to Political Psychology: The Societal Approach / Willem Doise, Christian Staerkle 151

10 The (Social) Psychological Legacy for Political Psychology / Daniel Bar-Tal 173

11 Group Psychology Is the State of Nature / C. Fred Alford 193

Part III. Special Areas of Application

12 Institutional Organization of Choice Spaces: A Political Conception of Political Psychology / Simon Jackman, Paul M. Sniderman 209

13 On-Line Versus Memory-Based Process Models of Political Evaluation / Howard Lavine 225

14 Long-Term Psychological Consequences of Political Events / David O. Sears 249

15 Crossing the Methodological and Disciplinary Divide: Political Stability, Political Change, and Research Method / Leonie Huddy 271

16 Signaling and Perception: Drawing Inferences and Projecting Images / Robert Jervis 293

Part IV. Focus on the Future

17 Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and Other Political Influences in Political Psychology / Peter Suedfeld 315

18 Reconstructing Political Psychology: Current Obstacles and New Direction / Shawn Rosenberg 329

19 Turning Political Psychology Upside Down / Robert E. Lane 367

20 An Intellectual Agenda for Political Psychology / David G. Winter 385

21 A Paradigm for Political Psychology / Kristen R. Monroe 399.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805838864

0805838872

OCLC:

46685204