Description
Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions.In this updated third edition of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit have gathered together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide an up-to-date account of key topics and areas of research in the field. Chapter authors draw on theory and research on biopsychology, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and intergroup relations. Some chapters address the political psychology of political elites, while other chapters deal with the dynamics of mass political behavior. Focusing first on political psychology at the individual level (attitudes, values, decision-making, ideology, personality) and then moving to the collective (group identity, mass mobilization, political violence), this fully interdisciplinary volume covers models of the mass public and political elites and addresses both domestic issues and foreign policy.Now with new chapters on authoritarianism, nationalism, status hierarchies, minority political identities, and several other topics along with substantially updated material to account for the recent cutting-edge research within both psychology and political science, this is an essential reference for scholars and students interested in the intersection of the two fields.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Political PsychologyLeonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer JeritPART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 2: Personality Approaches to Political BehaviorBert N. BakkerChapter 3: Childhood and Adult Political DevelopmentDavid O. Sears and Christia BrownChapter 4: Rational Choice as an Empirical and Normative Model of Political BehaviorDennis ChongChapter 5: Political Decision-MakingRichard R. Lau and David P. RedlawskChapter 6: Emotion and Political PsychologyTed Brader and Shana GadarianChapter 7: The Evolutionarily Approach to Political PsychologyMichael Bang Petersen Chapter 8: Biology and PoliticsJaime Settle and Laurel DetertChapter 9: Political LanguageNick HopkinsPART II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSChapter 10: Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Psychological DimensionJack S. LevyChapter 11: Perceiving Threat: Cognition, Emotion, and JudgmentJanice Gross SteinChapter 12: Signaling, Resolve, and Reputation in International PoliticsDon Casler and Keren Yarhi-Milo Chapter 13: Public Opinion about Foreign PolicyJoshua D. Kertzer Chapter 14: The Political Psychology of TerrorismKeren L.G. Snider, Ryan Shandler, Sharon Matzkin, and Daphna Canetti PART III: MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIORChapter 15: Information ProcessingJennifer Jerit and Cindy D. Kam Chapter 16: Political CommunicationDannagal G. Young and Joanne M. Miller Chapter 17: The Psychological and Social Foundations of Ideological Belief SystemsChristopher M. Federico and Ariel Malka Chapter 18: Morality as the Enduring Basis of Public OpinionPazit Ben-Nun Bloom Chapter 19: The Political Psychology of GenderMonica C. Schneider and Angela L. BosChapter 20: Authoritarianism and Political ConflictStanley Feldman and Christopher WeberChapter 21: National Identity, Patriotism, and NationalismLeonie Huddy Chapter 22: The Social Identity Approach to LeadershipFrank Mols, A. Alexander Haslam, Michael J. Platow, Stephen D. Reicher, and Niklas K. Steffens PART IV: INTERGROUP RELATIONSChapter 23: Group-Based Hierarchies of Power and StatusMaureen A. Craig and L. Taylor PhillipsChapter 24: Political IdentitiesLilliana Mason Chapter 25: The Gaze From Below: Toward a Political Psychology of Minority StatusEfrén O. Pérez and Bianca V. VicuñaChapter 26: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Collective ActionJacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora GaidyteChapter 27: Prejudice and PoliticsDonald R. KinderChapter 28: Migration and MulticulturalismEva G. T. Green and Christian StaerkléChapter 29: Prejudice Reduction and Social Change: Dual Goals to be Pursued in TandemLinda R. Tropp and Trisha A. Dehrone Chapter 30: Emotional Processes in Intractable ConflictsSmadar Cohen-Chen and Eran Halperin Index
