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Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919 (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History)

Glenda Sluga

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This book pursues a new cultural and political story of the idea of the nation, and of international politics in the early twentieth century, which situates both in the context of the history of psychology. That new story begins with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and moves backwards in time to the history of the rise of scientific psychology since 1870.

The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory

Edward T. Linenthal

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On April 19, 1995 the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation, destroying our complacent sense of safety and sending a community into a tailspin of shock, grief, and bewilderment. Almost as difficult as the bombing itself has been the aftermath, its legacy for Oklahoma City and for the nation, and the struggle to recover from this unprecedented attack.
In The Unfinished Bombing, Edward T. Linenthal explores the many ways Oklahomans and other Americans have tried to grapple with this catastrophe. Working with exclusive access to materials gathered by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Archive and drawing from over 150 personal interviews with family members of those murdered, survivors, rescuers, and many others, Linenthal looks at how the bombing threatened cherished ideas about American innocence, sparked national debate on how to respond to terrorism at home and abroad, and engendered a new "bereaved community" in Oklahoma City itself. Linenthal examines how different stories about the bombing were told through positive narratives of civic renewal and of religious redemption and more negative narratives of toxicity and trauma. He writes about the extraordinary bonds of affection that were created in the wake of the bombing, acts of kindness, empathy, and compassion that existed alongside the toxic legacy of the event.
The Unfinished Bombing offers a compelling look at both the individual and the larger cultural consequences of one of the most searing events in recent American history.

Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization

Fred I. Greenstein

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Presidential Personality And Performance

Alexander L George, Juliette L George

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Alexander and Juliette George have long been noted for their pathbreaking research concerning the impact of personality on political behavior and how U.S. presidents manage their political office. The Georges’ earlier book, Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study, was widely acclaimed as a successful demonstration that careful biography of historical figures in the light of depth psychology can yield new insight into their political behavior.Drawing heavily on Wilson materials, early chapters of this book examine the relevance of psychoanalytic theory and the use of other psychodynamic approaches to case materials. Chapter 4 is the Georges’ reply—published here in full for the first time—to a critical review of their work by historian Arthur S. Link and two of his colleagues. A condensed version that appeared over a decade ago generated a continuing scholarly controversy in which historians, political scientists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and ophthalmologists have participated.Chapter 5 discusses methods of writing psychobiography and assessing presidential character, including the psychological suitability of candidates for the office. The concluding chapter analyzes the presidential management styles of FDR, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, JFK, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton.

Political Psychology

Jon Elster

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This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he argues for an important distinction in the social sciences between mechanisms and theories. Third, he illustrates those general principles of political psychology through readings of three outstanding political psychologists: the French classical historian, Paul Veyne; the Soviet dissident writer, Alexander Zinoviev; the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville.

Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality: A Theory of Social Choice

Howard Margolis

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Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves.

"Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and political science for too long."—Times Literary Supplement

When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King

Robert S. Robins, Jerrold Post

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The illness or disability of a world leader can change the course of history. When Lenin became too infirm to remove Stalin from a position of power, when the shah of Iran's terminal cancer was kept secret from his fellow Iranians and his foreign supporters until Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution had succeeded, the political consequences were monumental. In this book, two experts in political psychology reveal how the infirmities of leaders have affected their own societies and the broader course of world events. Drawing on a wide range of examples, including Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Deng Xiao-peng, Ferdinand Marcos, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Menachem Begin, Dr. Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins explore the impact of physical and mental illness on political leadership. Post and Robins investigate the effects of illness on the leader, his inner circle, his followers, and the political system itself. They discuss such topics as: how the nature of the illness affects decision-making; how mortal illness can make a leader more determined to make his mark on history; how a leader's disability can be hidden from the public in every political system; the effects of prescribed drugs and substance abuse on leadership behaviour; the conflicted role and ethical dilemmas of physicians who care for the powerful; and how the demands and privileges of high office compromise the quality of medical care. In closed societies where there is no clear mechanism of succession, say the authors, the ailing or ageing leader and his close advisers can become locked in a fatal embrace, each dependent upon the other for survival; a captive king and his captive court. In the absence of clear rules for determining when a leader is disabled and should be replaced and how a successor will be chosen, illness in high office can be highly destabilizing.

The Politics of Denial

Michael A. Milburn, Sheree D. Conrad

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What is the driving force behind the undifferentiated rage of white males? Emotion appears to be playing an increasingly important role in politics, as evidenced by the vociferous opposition to welfare, abortion and immigrants, as well as by the rise of the radical Religious Right, anti-environmentalism and the general neoconservative slant of American public opinion. "The Politics of Denial" presents an explanation of these phenomena, providing empirical evidence for the role of rigid, harsh childrearing practices in the creation of punitive, authoritarian adult political attitudes. The authors, social pscyhologists, show how both the political and the public policy processes in the United States are distorted by the unresolved negative emotions (such as fear, anger and helplessness) that remain from punitive parenting, and by the politicians and conservative religious leaders who exploit those emotions. Among the many public figures discussed are Patrick Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan and Billy Graham. Milburn and Conrad define the concept of denial, describing its origins, observing its pervasiveness in American life, and detailing its negative effects on mental and physical health and on thinking itself. They then present the results of their broad-based research and explain how their model accounts for the rise of the Religious Right, its political attidudes and some of the extreme acts of violence against gays and abortion providers. The chapters that follow analyze the effects of denial on public opinion about issues such as punishment in schools, support for prisons, and fear of immigration. They discuss how political leaders exploit an angry electorate. They explore the legacy of slavery on blacks and the denial of its effects by whites; extreme denial in acts of governmental violence and genocide; and the role of denial in the destruction of the environment. These are complex issues for which there are no simple solutions; nevertheless, the authors propose in the concluding chapter some measures to alleviate the negative effects of denial on politics and public policy.

Political Leadership: A Source Book (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

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Barbara Kellerman gives us yet another great compilation on political leadership. This book is very comprehensive, covering almost every aspect on political leadership. From types and styles of leadership, to leader-follower relationships, to psychological explanations for why leaders lead and why some don't. This is a must for any student on political leadership, and anyone wanting to know about the subject in one book.

The Psychology of Socialism (Social Science Classics Series)

Gustave LeBon

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