Oxford Handbook of political psychology

837 Pages·2003·32.66 MB·English

by  David O. Sears

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David O. Sears
Leonie Huddy
Robert Jervis
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This Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology is officially sponsored by the
International Sociery of Political Psychology (151'1'). At the 1999 annual
meeting in Amsterdam, the president of ISpp, Daniel Bar-Tal, approached
us, suggesting that the rapid evolution of the field of political psychology
required fresh reexamination. He proposed that we edit a successor volume
to two earlier comprehensive treatments of the field, the Handbook of Po
litical Psychology, edited by Jeanne Knurson (1973) and Political Psychology,
edited by Margaret Hermann (1986). We then developed a proposal and
solicited authors. We were fortunate in being able to enlist a roster of the
vety best of contemporary political psychologists. The new president of
ISpp and its governing council endorsed our plan a year later at the 2000
annual meeting in Seattle. It has been an exciting challenge for us to bring
the richness and diversiry of the multidisciplinary and far-ranging field of
political psychology into a single volume. There are some important areas
that we did not have space to include, whose omission we regret. But the
ultimate success of our venture will be judged by our readers. We want to
express particulat thanks to the officers and members of IS PI' who provided
particular support, especially Daniel Bar-Tal and Ervin Sraub, and Robert
E. Lane, George Marcus, Stanley Rensbon, Charles Tabet, and David Win
ter. We owe much gratitude to our editor at Oxford University Press, Dedi
Felman, and to her colleagues who helped with the production, especially
Jennifet Rappaport and Jessica Ryan. Our most special appreciation is re
served for the tireless efforts of Marilyn Hart of the Institute for Social
Science Research at UCLA, who rematkably managed to keep a lengthy
and complex project organized and on track throughout its course, while
aJways maintaining her own usual fine humor and the good cheer of every
one else.

Contributors ix
1. The Psychologies Underlying Political Pyschology 3
David O. Sears, Leonie Huddy, and RobertJervis
Theoretical Approaches
2. Models of Decision-Mal<ing 19
Richard R. Lau
3. Childhood and Adult Political Development 60
David O. Sears and Sheri Levy
4. Personality and Political Behaviot 110
David G. Winter
5. Evolutionaty Approaches to Political Psychology 146
Jim Sidanius and Robert Kurzban
6. The Psychology of Emotion and Politics 182
George E. Marcus
7. Political Rhetotic 222
Michael Billig
International Relations
8. Political Psychology and Foreign Policy 253
Jack S. levy
9. Image Theory and Strategic Interaction in International
Relations 285
Richard K. Herrmann
10. Conflict Analysis and Resolution 315
Herbert C. Kelman and Ronald J. Fisher
Mass Political Behavior
11. Communication and Politics in the Age of Information 357
Donald R. Kinder
12. Political Impressions: Formation and Management 394
Kathleen M. McGraw
13. Information Processing and Public Opinion 433
Charles S. Taber
14. Values, Ideology, and the Structure of Political Attitudes 477
Stanley Feldman
Intergroup Relations
15. Group Identity and Political Cohesion 511
Leonie Huddy
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16. Prejudice and Intergroup Hostility 559
John Duckitt
17. Theorizing Gender in Polirical Psychology Research 601
Virginia Sapiro
Political Change
18. Education and Democraric Citizenship in a Changing
World 637
Orit Ichilov
19. Collective Political Action 670
Bert Klandermans
20. Genocide, Mass Killing and Intractable Conflict: Roots,
Evolution, Prevention, and Reconciliation 710
Ervin Staub and Daniel Bar-Tal
Epilogue
21. Rescuing Political Science from Itself 755
Robert E. Lane
Index 795
Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor of Education at Tel Aviv University.
Michael Billig is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University.
John Duckitt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Aucldand.
Stanley Feldman is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University.
Ronald J. Fisher is Professor of International Relations in the School of In
ternational Service at American University.
Richard K. Herrmann is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State Univer
sity.
Leonie Huddy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook Uni
versity.
Orit Ichilov is Professor of Education at Tel Aviv University.
Robert Jervis is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
Herbert C. Kelman is Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
Donald R. Kinder is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the
University of Michigan.
Bert Klandermans is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Free Univer
sity, Amsterdam.
Robert Kurzban is Assistant Professot of Psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Robert E. lane is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University.
Richard R. lau is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Jack S. levy is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Sheri Levy is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University.
George E. Marcus is Professor of Political Science at Williams College.
Kathleen M. McGraw is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at Ohio
State University.
Virginia Sapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wiscon
sin, Madison.
David O. Sears is Professor of Psychology and Political Science at the Uni
versity of California, Los Angeles.
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