The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (2 ed.)
Abstract
Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines citizens’ vote choices and public opinion as well as how political leaders deal with threat, mediate political conflicts, and make foreign policy decisions. The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology gathers together a distinguished group of international scholars to shed light on such questions as: To what extent are people’s political choices influenced by information outside of conscious awareness? Does personality affect leadership style? Do strong emotions distort the political process and worsen or enhance political decisions? Focusing on political psychology at the individual level (genes, early childhood, personality, decision-making, emotions, values, ideology) and the collective (group identity, social justice, mass mobilization, political violence, prejudice reduction), this interdisciplinary volume covers models of the mass public and political elites and addresses both domestic issues and foreign policy. The volume provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and expertly distilled account of cutting-edge research within both psychology and political science.
Keywords:
ideology,
political psychology,
public opinion,
political behavior,
vote choice,
political decision making,
intergroup conflict,
threat perception,
personality of leaders,
political emotion,
racial prejudice,
conflict resolution
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Sep 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199760107
- Published online:
- Dec 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199760107.001.0001
Editors
Leonie Huddy,
editor
Leonie Huddy is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Survey Research at Stony Brook University. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on political psychology, with a focus on the politics of intergroup relations. Huddy’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, she is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, past editor of the journal, Political Psychology, past-president of the International Society for Political Psychology, and serves on the American National Election Studies (ANES) Board of overseers and numerous editorial boards in political science.
David O. Sears,
editor
David O. Sears is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a co-author of Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (2010) and The Diversity Challenge (2008). He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University, and is a former president of the International Society for Political Psychology, and a former Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA.
Jack S. Levy,
editor
Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors' Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is past-president of the International Studies Association and of the Peace Science Society. Levy studies the causes of interstate war and foreign policy decision-making, including prospect theory, misperception and war, intelligence failure, learning from history, and time horizons. His most recent books include Causes of War (2010) and The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011), each co-authored with William R. Thompson.
