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Open versus Closed
This book explains how deep-seated personality traits shape citizens' attitudes toward economic redistribution, and what it means for American democracy. It will be of interest to researchers from across the social sciences, as well as citizens, pundits, political observers, and commentators from across the political spectrum.
The Ambivalent Partisan
The authors of this book demonstrate that compared to other citizens, ambivalent partisans perceive the political world accurately, form their policy preferences in a principled manner, and communicate those preferences by making issues an important component of their electoral decisions.
The Feeling, Thinking Citizen
This book is an appreciation of the long and illustrious career of Milton Lodge. Having begun his academic life as a Kremlinologist in the 1960s, Milton Lodge radically shifted gears to become one of the most influential scholars of the past half century working at the intersection of psychology and political science. In borrowing and refashioning concepts from cognitive psychology, social cognition and neuroscience, his work has led to wholesale transformations in the way political scientists understand the mass political mind, as well as the nature and quality of democratic citizenship. In this collection, Lodge’s collaborators and colleagues describe how his work has influenced their ow...
Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy
Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy brings to light recent and important contributions on personality psychology with respect to the democratic process.
Political Persuasion
This book examines the tactics of value recruitment through case studies in educational and environmental politics. By presenting interviews with activists and policymakers and numerous novel experiments, Thomas E. Nelson demonstrates the strategy behind value recruitment and how it shapes our political attitudes.
Citizenship in Hard Times
A comparative study of how citizens define their civic duty in response to current threats to advanced democracies.
Hope Amidst Conflict
How does hope for peace form and proliferate in the seemingly hopeless reality of conflict, and why do despair and fear often prevail? How do political elites utilize hope and skepticism to manipulate their public during conflict? And how does hope manifest itself at the societal level? Hope Amidst Conflict takes on the bold challenge of answering these questions by merging insights from philosophy and social psychology and investigating hope for peace in an intense political context--the intractable, violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Hope for peace has gathered scholarly attention in the last decade. However, the work has been focusing on the mechanisms of hope while fai...
Authoritarianism and the Evolution of West European Electoral Politics
"Authoritarianism and the Evolution of West European Electoral Politics provides a novel explanation of rising Euroscepticism and right-wing populism in Western Europe. The changing political and cultural environment of recent decades is generating an ongoing realignment of voters structured by authoritarianism, which is a psychological disposition towards the maintenance of social cohesion and order at the expense of individual autonomy and diversity. High authoritarians find the values and demographic changes of the past several decades a threat to social cohesion, which has created an opportunity for PRR parties to gain their support by campaigning against these perceived threats to natio...
The Cost of Doing Politics
Reveals how and why corporate political influence remains largely invisible to the public eye.
Curbing the Court
Explains when, why, and how citizens try to limit the Supreme Court's independence and power-- and why it matters.
