Political Psychology

Download or read book Political Psychology written by S. Renshon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationships of culture and political psychology shape a wide range of important contemporary political issues. The distinguished contributors to this book make use of diverse theories of psychology, informed by a broadly comparable understanding of the nature of culture. The book is an important landmark in developing the field of political psychology, developing insights from psychological anthropologists, political scientists and crosscultural psychologists. Critical contemporary social, political and cultural issues of ethnic and crosscultural conflict around the world are crying out for theories making use of the powerful lens of culture along with other refractory frameworks.