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Political Judgment: Structure and Process

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An information processing approach to how citizens make important political decisions.

Political Leadership: Towards a General Analysis

Jean Blondel

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Political leaders are the most universal, recognized, and talked about element of political life. However, the general analysis of political leadership has been little advanced.

In this book Professor Blondel provides a general framework for the systematic study of leadership to make possible future empirical study and comparative analysis of political leadership.

After examining the current state of political leadership studies, Professor Blondel categorizes the leaders of the world taking into account both their goals and the constraints and opportunities resulting from the environment.

Important features and influences on leadership are identified: the sources of personal power, the role of leaders' own psychology and perspective, the instruments of power available to leaders, their relationship with subordinates and citizens, the influence of institutions on leadership and the impact of leaders.

The Political Psychology of the Gulf War: Leaders, Publics, and the Process of Conflict (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

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In these original essays, widely respected experts analyze the personal psychologies and public belief systems of the individuals and nations involved in the Gulf War - from George Bush and Saddam Hussein to the peoples of the United States, Israel, and Arab countries.  Approaching the events of 1990-1991 from the perspectives of psychology, history, mass communications, and political science, these scholars examine the dynamic relationship of events, behavior, and perceptions.



Part I deals with the psychological and political origins of the war; part II focuses on George Bush, Saddam Hussein, and the nature of their leadership and judgement; part III discusses the battle for public perceptions and beliefs waged by both sides; part IV analyzes the results of that battle as revealed by the understanding of the U.S., Israeli, and Arab publics; and part V deals with the war’s consequences.  A postscript by Stanley Renshon covers military actions in the Gulf in late 1992 and early 1993.

Political Psychology: A Special Issue of the Journal Applied Psychology: An International Review (Applied Psychology, Vol 47, Issue 1, January 1998)

Klaus Boehnke

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This special issue covers a wide rage of topics in political psychology, a growing field of applied psychology. It includes contributions of prominent authors from four continents.

Political Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Readings

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Political Psychology: Contemporary Problems and Issues (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)

Margaret G. Hermann

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The Political Re-Education of Germany and Her Allies After World War II

Nicholas Pronay

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Political re-education was the British alternative to the ideas put forward by the US and the USSR in the common search for a post-war policy. The question of this policy's place in the preservation of peace and the integration of Germany and Japan into the community of their historical enemies is increasingly emerging into the forefront of historical inquiry. This book provides an important insight into the history and practice of "political re-education," from its origins to 1951.

Political Reasoning and Cognition: A Piagetian View

Shawn Rosenberg, Dana Ward, Stephen Chilton

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The Political System Matters: Social Psychology and Voting Behavior in Sweden and the United States (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

Donald Granberg, Svren Holmberg

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An analysis examining how the political system affects the behaviour of individuals, this study has based its findings on long-term cross sectional and panel national surveys of electorates in the democratic systems of Sweden and the United States.

Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Silence (European Horizons)

Gesine Schwan

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Politics and Guilt sheds new light on our understanding of the pervasive psychological and cultural effects of Nazism by examining the power of guilt in modern Germany. Usually seen as a psychological and intensely personal phenomenon, the effect of guilt on the collective arena of politics has been downplayed or misunderstood by many political scientists. Taking issue with Hannah Arendt, Daniel Goldhagen, and Hermann Lübbe, Gesine Schwan argues that Germans must confront their Nazi past because the repression or lack of acknowledgment of guilt damages modern democracies. The Nazi perpetrators were not above the norms of good and evil, she asserts, but were conscious of their guilt and silent about it. The widespread psychological guilt in them and their descendents has adversely affected perceptions of political responsibility, marriage, and child rearing in modern Germany.

 

At a moment when past crimes are being exposed, reparation demands are increasingly common, and world leaders are apologizing and making amends for past mistakes and injustices, Schwan's analysis is timely and thoughtful, standing as the most sophisticated consideration of guilt in politics to date.