The political mind: why you can't understand 21st-century politics with an 18th-century brain

Abstract

Introduction: brain change and social change -- How the brain shapes the political mind -- Anna Nicole on the brain -- The political unconscious -- The brain's role in family values -- The brain?s role in political ideologies -- Political challenges -- For the twenty-first-century mind -- A new consciousness -- Traumatic ideas: the War on Terror -- Framing reality: privateering -- Fear of framing -- Confronting stereotypes: -- Sons of the welfare queen -- Aim above the bad apples -- Cognitive policy -- Contested concepts everywhere -- The technical is the political -- Exploring the political brain -- The problem of self- interest -- The metaphors defining rational action -- Why hawks win -- The brain's language -- Language in the new enlightenment -- Afterword: what if it works? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index